Creating an API server source - Eventing | Serverless

Creating an API server source by using the web console
Creating an API server source by using the Knative CLI
- Knative CLI sink flag
Creating an API server source by using YAML files

The API server source is an event source that can be used to connect an event sink, such as a Knative service, to the Kubernetes API server. The API server source watches for Kubernetes events and forwards them to the Knative Eventing broker.

Creating an API server source by using the web console

After Knative Eventing is installed on your cluster, you can create an API server source by using the web console. Using the OpenShift Container Platform web console provides a streamlined and intuitive user interface to create an event source.

Prerequisites

You have logged in to the OpenShift Container Platform web console.
The OpenShift Serverless Operator and Knative Eventing are installed on the cluster.
You have created a project or have access to a project with the appropriate roles and permissions to create applications and other workloads in OpenShift Container Platform.
You have installed the OpenShift CLI (oc).

Procedure

If you want to re-use an existing service account, you can modify your existing ServiceAccount resource to include the required permissions instead of creating a new resource.

Create a service account, role, and role binding for the event source as a YAML file:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: events-sa
  namespace: default (1)

---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: Role
metadata:
  name: event-watcher
  namespace: default (1)
rules:
  - apiGroups:
      - ""
    resources:
      - events
    verbs:
      - get
      - list
      - watch

---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
  name: k8s-ra-event-watcher
  namespace: default (1)
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: Role
  name: event-watcher
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: events-sa
    namespace: default (1)

1	Change this namespace to the namespace that you have selected for installing the event source.

Apply the YAML file:
```
$ oc apply -f <filename>
```
In the Developer perspective, navigate to +Add → Event Source. The Event Sources page is displayed.
Optional: If you have multiple providers for your event sources, select the required provider from the Providers list to filter the available event sources from the provider.
Select ApiServerSource and then click Create Event Source. The Create Event Source page is displayed.
Configure the ApiServerSource settings by using the Form view or YAML view:

You can switch between the Form view and YAML view. The data is persisted when switching between the views.
1. Enter v1 as the APIVERSION and Event as the KIND.
2. Select the Service Account Name for the service account that you created.
3. Select the Sink for the event source. A Sink can be either a Resource, such as a channel, broker, or service, or a URI.
Click Create.

Verification

After you have created the API server source, you will see it connected to the service it is sinked to in the Topology view.

If a URI sink is used, modify the URI by right-clicking on URI sink → Edit URI.

Deleting the API server source

Navigate to the Topology view.
Right-click the API server source and select Delete ApiServerSource.

Creating an API server source by using the Knative CLI

You can use the kn source apiserver create command to create an API server source by using the kn CLI. Using the kn CLI to create an API server source provides a more streamlined and intuitive user interface than modifying YAML files directly.

Prerequisites

The OpenShift Serverless Operator and Knative Eventing are installed on the cluster.
You have created a project or have access to a project with the appropriate roles and permissions to create applications and other workloads in OpenShift Container Platform.
You have installed the OpenShift CLI (oc).
You have installed the Knative (kn) CLI.

Procedure

If you want to re-use an existing service account, you can modify your existing ServiceAccount resource to include the required permissions instead of creating a new resource.

Create a service account, role, and role binding for the event source as a YAML file:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: events-sa
  namespace: default (1)

---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: Role
metadata:
  name: event-watcher
  namespace: default (1)
rules:
  - apiGroups:
      - ""
    resources:
      - events
    verbs:
      - get
      - list
      - watch

---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
  name: k8s-ra-event-watcher
  namespace: default (1)
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: Role
  name: event-watcher
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: events-sa
    namespace: default (1)

1	Change this namespace to the namespace that you have selected for installing the event source.

Apply the YAML file:
```
$ oc apply -f <filename>
```

Create an API server source that has an event sink. In the following example, the sink is a broker:

$ kn source apiserver create <event_source_name> --sink broker:<broker_name> --resource "event:v1" --service-account <service_account_name> --mode Resource

To check that the API server source is set up correctly, create a Knative service that dumps incoming messages to its log:
```
$ kn service create <service_name> --image quay.io/openshift-knative/knative-eventing-sources-event-display:latest
```
If you used a broker as an event sink, create a trigger to filter events from the default broker to the service:
```
$ kn trigger create <trigger_name> --sink ksvc:<service_name>
```

Create events by launching a pod in the default namespace:

$ oc create deployment hello-node --image quay.io/openshift-knative/knative-eventing-sources-event-display:latest

Check that the controller is mapped correctly by inspecting the output generated by the following command:

$ kn source apiserver describe <source_name>

Example output

Name:                mysource
Namespace:           default
Annotations:         sources.knative.dev/creator=developer, sources.knative.dev/lastModifier=developer
Age:                 3m
ServiceAccountName:  events-sa
Mode:                Resource
Sink:
  Name:       default
  Namespace:  default
  Kind:       Broker (eventing.knative.dev/v1)
Resources:
  Kind:        event (v1)
  Controller:  false
Conditions:
  OK TYPE                     AGE REASON
  ++ Ready                     3m
  ++ Deployed                  3m
  ++ SinkProvided              3m
  ++ SufficientPermissions     3m
  ++ EventTypesProvided        3m

Verification

You can verify that the Kubernetes events were sent to Knative by looking at the message dumper function logs.

Get the pods:
```
$ oc get pods
```

View the message dumper function logs for the pods:

$ oc logs $(oc get pod -o name | grep event-display) -c user-container

Example output

☁️  cloudevents.Event
Validation: valid
Context Attributes,
  specversion: 1.0
  type: dev.knative.apiserver.resource.update
  datacontenttype: application/json
  ...
Data,
  {
    "apiVersion": "v1",
    "involvedObject": {
      "apiVersion": "v1",
      "fieldPath": "spec.containers{hello-node}",
      "kind": "Pod",
      "name": "hello-node",
      "namespace": "default",
       .....
    },
    "kind": "Event",
    "message": "Started container",
    "metadata": {
      "name": "hello-node.159d7608e3a3572c",
      "namespace": "default",
      ....
    },
    "reason": "Started",
    ...
  }

Deleting the API server source

Delete the trigger:
```
$ kn trigger delete <trigger_name>
```

Delete the event source:

$ kn source apiserver delete <source_name>

Delete the service account, cluster role, and cluster binding:
```
$ oc delete -f authentication.yaml
```

Knative CLI sink flag

When you create an event source by using the Knative (kn) CLI, you can specify a sink where events are sent to from that resource by using the --sink flag. The sink can be any addressable or callable resource that can receive incoming events from other resources.

The following example creates a sink binding that uses a service, http://event-display.svc.cluster.local, as the sink:

Example command using the sink flag

$ kn source binding create bind-heartbeat \
  --namespace sinkbinding-example \
  --subject "Job:batch/v1:app=heartbeat-cron" \
  --sink http://event-display.svc.cluster.local \ (1)
  --ce-override "sink=bound"

1	`svc` in `http://event-display.svc.cluster.local` determines that the sink is a Knative service. Other default sink prefixes include `channel`, and `broker`.

Creating an API server source by using YAML files

Creating Knative resources by using YAML files uses a declarative API, which enables you to describe event sources declaratively and in a reproducible manner. To create an API server source by using YAML, you must create a YAML file that defines an ApiServerSource object, then apply it by using the oc apply command.

Prerequisites

The OpenShift Serverless Operator and Knative Eventing are installed on the cluster.
You have created a project or have access to a project with the appropriate roles and permissions to create applications and other workloads in OpenShift Container Platform.
You have created the default broker in the same namespace as the one defined in the API server source YAML file.
Install the OpenShift CLI (oc).

Procedure

If you want to re-use an existing service account, you can modify your existing ServiceAccount resource to include the required permissions instead of creating a new resource.

Create a service account, role, and role binding for the event source as a YAML file:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: events-sa
  namespace: default (1)

---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: Role
metadata:
  name: event-watcher
  namespace: default (1)
rules:
  - apiGroups:
      - ""
    resources:
      - events
    verbs:
      - get
      - list
      - watch

---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
  name: k8s-ra-event-watcher
  namespace: default (1)
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: Role
  name: event-watcher
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: events-sa
    namespace: default (1)

1	Change this namespace to the namespace that you have selected for installing the event source.

Apply the YAML file:
```
$ oc apply -f <filename>
```

Create an API server source as a YAML file:

apiVersion: sources.knative.dev/v1alpha1
kind: ApiServerSource
metadata:
  name: testevents
spec:
  serviceAccountName: events-sa
  mode: Resource
  resources:
    - apiVersion: v1
      kind: Event
  sink:
    ref:
      apiVersion: eventing.knative.dev/v1
      kind: Broker
      name: default

Apply the ApiServerSource YAML file:
```
$ oc apply -f <filename>
```

To check that the API server source is set up correctly, create a Knative service as a YAML file that dumps incoming messages to its log:

apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: event-display
  namespace: default
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: quay.io/openshift-knative/knative-eventing-sources-event-display:latest

Apply the Service YAML file:
```
$ oc apply -f <filename>
```

Create a Trigger object as a YAML file that filters events from the default broker to the service created in the previous step:

apiVersion: eventing.knative.dev/v1
kind: Trigger
metadata:
  name: event-display-trigger
  namespace: default
spec:
  broker: default
  subscriber:
    ref:
      apiVersion: serving.knative.dev/v1
      kind: Service
      name: event-display

Apply the Trigger YAML file:
```
$ oc apply -f <filename>
```

Create events by launching a pod in the default namespace:

$ oc create deployment hello-node --image=quay.io/openshift-knative/knative-eventing-sources-event-display

Check that the controller is mapped correctly, by entering the following command and inspecting the output:

$ oc get apiserversource.sources.knative.dev testevents -o yaml

Example output

apiVersion: sources.knative.dev/v1alpha1
kind: ApiServerSource
metadata:
  annotations:
  creationTimestamp: "2020-04-07T17:24:54Z"
  generation: 1
  name: testevents
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "62868"
  selfLink: /apis/sources.knative.dev/v1alpha1/namespaces/default/apiserversources/testevents2
  uid: 1603d863-bb06-4d1c-b371-f580b4db99fa
spec:
  mode: Resource
  resources:
  - apiVersion: v1
    controller: false
    controllerSelector:
      apiVersion: ""
      kind: ""
      name: ""
      uid: ""
    kind: Event
    labelSelector: {}
  serviceAccountName: events-sa
  sink:
    ref:
      apiVersion: eventing.knative.dev/v1
      kind: Broker
      name: default

Verification

To verify that the Kubernetes events were sent to Knative, you can look at the message dumper function logs.

Get the pods by entering the following command:
```
$ oc get pods
```

View the message dumper function logs for the pods by entering the following command:

$ oc logs $(oc get pod -o name | grep event-display) -c user-container

Example output

☁️  cloudevents.Event
Validation: valid
Context Attributes,
  specversion: 1.0
  type: dev.knative.apiserver.resource.update
  datacontenttype: application/json
  ...
Data,
  {
    "apiVersion": "v1",
    "involvedObject": {
      "apiVersion": "v1",
      "fieldPath": "spec.containers{hello-node}",
      "kind": "Pod",
      "name": "hello-node",
      "namespace": "default",
       .....
    },
    "kind": "Event",
    "message": "Started container",
    "metadata": {
      "name": "hello-node.159d7608e3a3572c",
      "namespace": "default",
      ....
    },
    "reason": "Started",
    ...
  }

Deleting the API server source

Delete the trigger:
```
$ oc delete -f trigger.yaml
```
Delete the event source:
```
$ oc delete -f k8s-events.yaml
```
Delete the service account, cluster role, and cluster binding:
```
$ oc delete -f authentication.yaml
```