# API7 Enterprise Edition Demo - Helm Chart A comprehensive Helm chart for deploying the API7 Enterprise Edition demo platform on Kubernetes. This chart deploys both web frontend and API backend services with full API7 Gateway integration, including automatic ADC configuration, TLS management, and advanced rate limiting. ## 📋 Overview This Helm chart provides: - **Dual Service Deployment**: Web frontend + API backend - **API7 Gateway Configuration**: Automatic ADC (API7 Declarative CLI) sync to existing gateway - ⚠️ **Does NOT install API7 Gateway** - gateway must already exist - Only configures routes, services, and upstreams on existing gateway - **TLS/SSL Management**: cert-manager integration or custom certificates - **Service Discovery**: Kubernetes-native service discovery - **Rate Limiting**: Standard and AI token-based rate limiting - **Autoscaling**: Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) support - **High Availability**: Pod Disruption Budgets and multi-replica deployment - **Security**: Pod Security Contexts, RBAC, and Network Policies ## 🎯 Features ### Deployments - **Web Service** (apache-service): FastAPI frontend with embedded documentation - **API Service** (nginx-service): FastAPI backend with REST API and LLM endpoints ### API7 Gateway Configuration - **Automatic ADC Sync**: Configures routes, services, and upstreams - **Advanced Rate Limiting**: - Standard: 100 req/60s per IP for `/api/*` - AI: 100 tokens/60s for `/api/llm/*` - **Route Prioritization**: LLM (20) > API (10) > Web (1) - **TLS/SSL**: Automatic HTTPS redirect and certificate management - **Plugins**: CORS, Prometheus metrics, request logging, authentication ### Kubernetes Resources - Deployments (Web and API) - Services (ClusterIP) - Ingress (NGINX) - ConfigMaps (Application config and ADC config) - Secrets (TLS certificates, API7 credentials) - ServiceAccount and RBAC - HorizontalPodAutoscaler - PodDisruptionBudget - Certificate (cert-manager) - Job (ADC sync) ## 📦 Prerequisites ### Required - **Kubernetes**: v1.19 or higher - **Helm**: 3.8.0 or higher - **API7 Enterprise Edition Gateway**: **MUST be already installed and running** - This chart does NOT install API7 Gateway - This chart only configures routes and services on an existing gateway - You need the DP Manager admin URL and admin key - Example: `http://api7ee3-0-xxx-dp-manager.api7ee.svc.cluster.local:7900` ### Optional - **Ingress Controller**: NGINX Ingress Controller (for direct Kubernetes ingress) - **cert-manager**: v1.0+ (for automatic TLS certificate management) ### Before Installation 1. **Verify API7 Gateway is Running**: ```bash kubectl get pods -n api7ee | grep gateway kubectl get pods -n api7ee | grep dp-manager ``` 2. **Get API7 Admin Credentials**: ```bash # Get DP Manager URL kubectl get svc -n api7ee | grep dp-manager # Get admin key from API7 Dashboard or documentation # Default is usually generated during API7 installation ``` 3. **Test Gateway Connectivity**: ```bash # Test from within cluster kubectl run test-curl --rm -i --restart=Never --image=curlimages/curl:latest \ -- curl -s http://api7ee3-0-xxx-dp-manager.api7ee.svc.cluster.local:7900/version ``` ## 🚀 Installation ### Add Helm Repository ```bash # Add the Gitea Helm repository helm repo add api7ee https://git.commandware.com/api/packages/demos/helm # Update repositories helm repo update # Search for available versions helm search repo api7ee/api7ee-demo-k8s ``` ### Basic Installation ```bash # Install with default values helm install api7ee-demo api7ee/api7ee-demo-k8s \ --namespace api7ee \ --create-namespace # Check installation helm list -n api7ee kubectl get pods -n api7ee ``` ### Installation with Custom Values ```bash # Install with custom values file helm install api7ee-demo api7ee/api7ee-demo-k8s \ --namespace api7ee \ --create-namespace \ -f custom-values.yaml # Install with command-line overrides helm install api7ee-demo api7ee/api7ee-demo-k8s \ --namespace api7ee \ --set web.replicaCount=3 \ --set api.replicaCount=5 \ --set api7.gateway.adminKey="your-admin-key" \ --set api7.hosts[0]="your-domain.com" ``` ### Install from Local Chart ```bash # Install from local directory helm install api7ee-demo ./helm/api7ee-demo-k8s \ --namespace api7ee \ --create-namespace # With development values helm install api7ee-dev ./helm/api7ee-demo-k8s \ -f ./helm/api7ee-demo-k8s/values-dev.yaml \ --namespace api7ee-dev ``` ## ⚙️ Configuration ### Global Configuration | Parameter | Description | Default | | ------------------------- | ---------------------- | ------- | | `global.imageRegistry` | Global Docker registry | `""` | | `global.imagePullSecrets` | Image pull secrets | `[]` | ### Web Service Configuration | Parameter | Description | Default | | ------------------------------------------------ | --------------------- | ---------------------- | | `web.enabled` | Enable Web component | `true` | | `web.replicaCount` | Number of replicas | `2` | | `web.image.registry` | Image registry | `gitea.server_url` | | `web.image.repository` | Image repository | `gitea.repository/web` | | `web.image.tag` | Image tag | `main` | | `web.image.pullPolicy` | Image pull policy | `IfNotPresent` | | `web.service.type` | Service type | `ClusterIP` | | `web.service.port` | Service port | `8000` | | `web.resources.limits.cpu` | CPU limit | `500m` | | `web.resources.limits.memory` | Memory limit | `512Mi` | | `web.resources.requests.cpu` | CPU request | `250m` | | `web.resources.requests.memory` | Memory request | `256Mi` | | `web.autoscaling.enabled` | Enable HPA | `false` | | `web.autoscaling.minReplicas` | Min replicas | `2` | | `web.autoscaling.maxReplicas` | Max replicas | `10` | | `web.autoscaling.targetCPUUtilizationPercentage` | CPU target | `80` | | `web.env` | Environment variables | `[]` | ### API Service Configuration | Parameter | Description | Default | | ------------------------------------------------ | --------------------- | ---------------------------------- | | `api.enabled` | Enable API component | `true` | | `api.replicaCount` | Number of replicas | `3` | | `api.image.registry` | Image registry | `gitea.server_url` | | `api.image.repository` | Image repository | `gitea.repository/api` | | `api.image.tag` | Image tag | `main` | | `api.image.pullPolicy` | Image pull policy | `IfNotPresent` | | `api.service.type` | Service type | `ClusterIP` | | `api.service.port` | Service port | `8080` | | `api.resources.limits.cpu` | CPU limit | `1000m` | | `api.resources.limits.memory` | Memory limit | `1Gi` | | `api.resources.requests.cpu` | CPU request | `500m` | | `api.resources.requests.memory` | Memory request | `512Mi` | | `api.autoscaling.enabled` | Enable HPA | `true` | | `api.autoscaling.minReplicas` | Min replicas | `3` | | `api.autoscaling.maxReplicas` | Max replicas | `20` | | `api.autoscaling.targetCPUUtilizationPercentage` | CPU target | `70` | | `api.env` | Environment variables | `[{name: LOG_LEVEL, value: info}]` | ### Ingress Configuration | Parameter | Description | Default | | --------------------------- | ------------------- | ---------------------------- | | `ingress.enabled` | Enable ingress | `true` | | `ingress.className` | Ingress class | `nginx` | | `ingress.annotations` | Ingress annotations | See values.yaml | | `ingress.hosts[0].host` | Hostname | `api7-demo.commandware.it` | | `ingress.tls[0].secretName` | TLS secret | `api7ee-tls` | | `ingress.tls[0].hosts` | TLS hosts | `[api7-demo.commandware.it]` | ### API7 Gateway Configuration | Parameter | Description | Default | | ----------------------------- | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------ | | `api7.enabled` | Enable API7 ADC config | `true` | | `api7.adc.image` | ADC Docker image | `ghcr.io/api7/adc:latest` | | `api7.adc.verbose` | Verbose logging | `true` | | `api7.adc.tlsSkipVerify` | Skip TLS verify | `false` | | `api7.gateway.adminUrl` | API7 Admin API URL | `http://api7ee3-0-xxx-dp-manager...` | | `api7.gateway.adminKey` | API7 Admin API key | `edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1` | | `api7.gateway.group` | Gateway group | `default` | | `api7.gateway.gatewayService` | Gateway service name | `gateway-0-xxx-gateway` | | `api7.backend` | Backend type | `api7ee` | | `api7.autoPublish` | Auto-publish routes | `true` | | `api7.hosts` | Routing hosts | `[api7-demo.commandware.it]` | ### TLS Configuration | Parameter | Description | Default | | --------------------------------- | ------------------- | ---------------------- | | `api7.tls.enabled` | Enable TLS | `true` | | `api7.tls.certManager.enabled` | Use cert-manager | `true` | | `api7.tls.certManager.issuer` | ClusterIssuer name | `cloudflare-acme-prod` | | `api7.tls.certManager.issuerKind` | Issuer kind | `ClusterIssuer` | | `api7.tls.secretName` | Existing TLS secret | `""` | | `api7.tls.certificate` | Direct certificate | `""` | | `api7.tls.key` | Direct key | `""` | ### Rate Limiting Configuration | Parameter | Description | Default | | ---------------------------------------- | ----------------------------- | -------------- | | `api7.plugins.rateLimit.enabled` | Enable standard rate limiting | `true` | | `api7.plugins.rateLimit.count` | Request limit | `100` | | `api7.plugins.rateLimit.timeWindow` | Time window (seconds) | `60` | | `api7.plugins.rateLimit.keyType` | Key type | `var` | | `api7.plugins.rateLimit.key` | Key variable | `remote_addr` | | `api7.plugins.aiRateLimit.enabled` | Enable AI rate limiting | `true` | | `api7.plugins.aiRateLimit.limit` | Token limit | `100` | | `api7.plugins.aiRateLimit.timeWindow` | Time window (seconds) | `60` | | `api7.plugins.aiRateLimit.limitStrategy` | Limit strategy | `total_tokens` | ### Additional Plugins | Parameter | Description | Default | | --------------------------------- | ------------------------- | ------- | | `api7.plugins.cors.enabled` | Enable CORS | `true` | | `api7.plugins.cors.allowOrigins` | Allowed origins | `["*"]` | | `api7.plugins.auth.enabled` | Enable authentication | `false` | | `api7.plugins.prometheus.enabled` | Enable Prometheus metrics | `true` | | `api7.plugins.logging.enabled` | Enable request logging | `false` | ## 📝 Configuration Examples ### Production Deployment ```yaml # production-values.yaml global: imageRegistry: "git.commandware.com" imagePullSecrets: - name: registry-secret web: replicaCount: 3 image: tag: "v1.0.0" pullPolicy: Always resources: limits: cpu: 1000m memory: 1Gi requests: cpu: 500m memory: 512Mi autoscaling: enabled: true minReplicas: 3 maxReplicas: 15 api: replicaCount: 5 image: tag: "v1.0.0" pullPolicy: Always resources: limits: cpu: 2000m memory: 2Gi requests: cpu: 1000m memory: 1Gi autoscaling: enabled: true minReplicas: 5 maxReplicas: 30 api7: gateway: adminKey: "${API7_ADMIN_KEY}" # Use secret hosts: - api7-demo.yourdomain.com plugins: rateLimit: count: 1000 auth: enabled: true ``` ```bash helm install api7ee-prod api7ee/api7ee-demo-k8s \ -f production-values.yaml \ --namespace api7ee-prod \ --create-namespace ``` ### Custom Domain and TLS ```yaml # custom-domain-values.yaml api7: hosts: - api.example.com - demo.example.com tls: certManager: enabled: true issuer: letsencrypt-prod ingress: hosts: - host: api.example.com paths: - path: / pathType: Prefix service: web tls: - secretName: example-tls hosts: - api.example.com ``` ### High Resource Environment ```yaml # high-resources-values.yaml web: replicaCount: 5 resources: limits: cpu: 2000m memory: 2Gi requests: cpu: 1000m memory: 1Gi autoscaling: enabled: true maxReplicas: 20 api: replicaCount: 10 resources: limits: cpu: 4000m memory: 4Gi requests: cpu: 2000m memory: 2Gi autoscaling: enabled: true maxReplicas: 50 podDisruptionBudget: enabled: true minAvailable: 3 ``` ### Custom API7 Gateway ```yaml # custom-gateway-values.yaml api7: gateway: adminUrl: http://my-api7-gateway:9180 adminKey: "my-custom-key" group: production gatewayService: my-gateway-service backend: apisix # or api7ee autoPublish: false # Manual publish ``` ### LLM Configuration ```yaml # llm-values.yaml api: env: - name: OPENAI_API_BASE value: "http://openwebui.ai:8080/api" - name: OPENAI_API_KEY valueFrom: secretKeyRef: name: llm-secrets key: api-key - name: DEFAULT_LLM_MODEL value: "videogame-expert" api7: plugins: aiRateLimit: enabled: true limit: 200 # Higher limit timeWindow: 60 ``` ### Development Environment Use the included `values-dev.yaml`: ```bash helm install api7ee-dev ./helm/api7ee-demo-k8s \ -f ./helm/api7ee-demo-k8s/values-dev.yaml \ --namespace api7ee-dev ``` ## 🔄 Upgrade and Rollback ### Upgrade Release ```bash # Upgrade with new values helm upgrade api7ee-demo api7ee/api7ee-demo-k8s \ --namespace api7ee \ -f new-values.yaml # Upgrade with inline values helm upgrade api7ee-demo api7ee/api7ee-demo-k8s \ --namespace api7ee \ --reuse-values \ --set api.replicaCount=5 # Force upgrade helm upgrade api7ee-demo api7ee/api7ee-demo-k8s \ --namespace api7ee \ --force ``` ### Rollback ```bash # View release history helm history api7ee-demo -n api7ee # Rollback to previous release helm rollback api7ee-demo -n api7ee # Rollback to specific revision helm rollback api7ee-demo 3 -n api7ee ``` ### Verify Upgrade ```bash # Check release status helm status api7ee-demo -n api7ee # View current values helm get values api7ee-demo -n api7ee # Check all resources kubectl get all -n api7ee -l app.kubernetes.io/instance=api7ee-demo ``` ## 🗑️ Uninstallation ```bash # Uninstall release helm uninstall api7ee-demo --namespace api7ee # Keep release history (for rollback) helm uninstall api7ee-demo --namespace api7ee --keep-history # Delete namespace kubectl delete namespace api7ee ``` ## 🔍 Verification and Testing ### Check Deployment Status ```bash # Helm release status helm list -n api7ee helm status api7ee-demo -n api7ee # Kubernetes resources kubectl get all -n api7ee kubectl get pods -n api7ee -w # Check specific resources kubectl get deployments -n api7ee kubectl get services -n api7ee kubectl get ingress -n api7ee kubectl get hpa -n api7ee ``` ### View Logs ```bash # Web service logs kubectl logs -n api7ee -l app=apache-service --tail=50 # API service logs kubectl logs -n api7ee -l app=nginx-service --tail=50 # ADC sync job logs kubectl logs -n api7ee -l app.kubernetes.io/component=adc-sync # All logs kubectl logs -n api7ee -l app.kubernetes.io/instance=api7ee-demo --all-containers ``` ### Test Endpoints ```bash # Get ingress URL INGRESS_HOST=$(kubectl get ingress -n api7ee api7ee-demo-ingress -o jsonpath='{.spec.rules[0].host}') # Test web service curl https://$INGRESS_HOST/ # Test API curl https://$INGRESS_HOST/api/items # Test health checks curl https://$INGRESS_HOST/health curl https://$INGRESS_HOST/api/health # Test LLM endpoint curl -X POST https://$INGRESS_HOST/api/llm/chat \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "prompt": "What is Zelda?", "max_tokens": 100 }' ``` ## 🔧 Troubleshooting ### Common Issues #### 1. ADC Sync Job Fails **Check job logs**: ```bash kubectl logs -n api7ee -l app.kubernetes.io/component=adc-sync # Common errors: # - "connection refused" → Check adminUrl # - "unauthorized" → Verify adminKey # - "route not found" → Check backend type (api7ee vs apisix) ``` **Solution**: ```bash # Update API7 credentials helm upgrade api7ee-demo api7ee/api7ee-demo-k8s \ --namespace api7ee \ --reuse-values \ --set api7.gateway.adminKey="correct-admin-key" ``` #### 2. Pods Not Starting **Check pod status**: ```bash kubectl describe pod -n api7ee # Common issues: # - ImagePullBackOff → Check image registry credentials # - CrashLoopBackOff → Check application logs # - Pending → Check resources and node capacity ``` **Solution for ImagePullBackOff**: ```bash # Create registry secret kubectl create secret docker-registry gitea-registry \ --docker-server=git.commandware.com \ --docker-username= \ --docker-password= \ -n api7ee # Update values helm upgrade api7ee-demo api7ee/api7ee-demo-k8s \ --namespace api7ee \ --reuse-values \ --set global.imagePullSecrets[0].name=gitea-registry ``` #### 3. Routes Return 404 **Cause**: Routes not published to gateway group **Check API7 Dashboard**: ``` Services → Select service → Routes → Check publication status ``` **Solution**: ```bash # Enable auto-publish helm upgrade api7ee-demo api7ee/api7ee-demo-k8s \ --namespace api7ee \ --reuse-values \ --set api7.autoPublish=true # Or publish manually via Dashboard: # Click "Publish" → Select "default" gateway group ``` #### 4. TLS Certificate Issues **Check certificate status**: ```bash kubectl get certificate -n api7ee kubectl describe certificate -n api7ee api7ee-tls # Check cert-manager logs kubectl logs -n cert-manager -l app=cert-manager --tail=50 ``` **Verify cert-manager configuration**: ```bash # Check ClusterIssuer kubectl get clusterissuer cloudflare-acme-prod # Check challenge kubectl get challenge -n api7ee ``` #### 5. Service Discovery Not Working **Check services have named ports**: ```bash kubectl get svc -n api7ee apache-service -o yaml | grep -A5 ports # Ports must have 'name' field: # ports: # - port: 80 # name: http # ← Required ``` **Check endpoints**: ```bash kubectl get endpoints -n api7ee ``` #### 6. HPA Not Scaling **Check HPA status**: ```bash kubectl get hpa -n api7ee kubectl describe hpa -n api7ee ``` **Verify metrics-server**: ```bash kubectl top nodes kubectl top pods -n api7ee # If metrics not available, install metrics-server: kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server/releases/latest/download/components.yaml ``` ## 📊 Monitoring ### Prometheus Metrics If Prometheus is enabled: ```yaml metrics: enabled: true serviceMonitor: enabled: true interval: 30s ``` **View metrics**: ```bash # Check ServiceMonitor kubectl get servicemonitor -n api7ee # Query Prometheus curl http:///api/v1/query?query=up{job="api7ee"} ``` ### API7 Dashboard Access API7 Dashboard to view: - Route traffic and statistics - Rate limiting metrics - Service health and upstreams - Plugin performance ## 🔐 Security ### Security Features - **Pod Security Context**: Runs as non-root user (UID 1000) - **Security Context**: Drops all capabilities, prevents privilege escalation - **Read-only Root Filesystem**: Enabled for both services - **Network Policies**: Optional network policy support - **RBAC**: ServiceAccount with minimal permissions - **Secrets Management**: TLS certificates and API keys stored securely ### Enable Network Policies ```yaml networkPolicy: enabled: true ingress: - from: - namespaceSelector: matchLabels: name: api7ee ports: - protocol: TCP port: 8000 ``` ### Secrets Management **Create secrets before installation**: ```bash # API7 admin key kubectl create secret generic api7-admin-key \ --from-literal=adminKey='your-admin-key' \ -n api7ee # LLM API key kubectl create secret generic llm-secrets \ --from-literal=api-key='your-llm-api-key' \ -n api7ee # Image pull secret kubectl create secret docker-registry gitea-registry \ --docker-server=git.commandware.com \ --docker-username= \ --docker-password= \ -n api7ee ``` **Reference in values**: ```yaml api7: gateway: adminKey: "${API7_ADMIN_KEY}" api: env: - name: OPENAI_API_KEY valueFrom: secretKeyRef: name: llm-secrets key: api-key ``` ## 📚 Chart Structure ``` helm/api7ee-demo-k8s/ ├── Chart.yaml # Chart metadata ├── values.yaml # Default values ├── values-dev.yaml # Development overrides ├── values-production.yaml # Production overrides ├── templates/ │ ├── NOTES.txt # Post-install notes │ ├── _helpers.tpl # Template helpers │ ├── deployment-web.yaml # Web deployment │ ├── deployment-api.yaml # API deployment │ ├── service-web.yaml # Web service │ ├── service-api.yaml # API service │ ├── ingress.yaml # Ingress resource │ ├── configmap.yaml # Application config │ ├── configmap-adc.yaml # API7 ADC config │ ├── job-adc-sync.yaml # ADC sync job │ ├── secret.yaml # Application secrets │ ├── secret-api7.yaml # API7 secrets │ ├── certificate.yaml # cert-manager certificate │ ├── serviceaccount.yaml # ServiceAccount │ ├── rbac-adc.yaml # RBAC for ADC │ ├── hpa-web.yaml # Web HPA │ ├── hpa-api.yaml # API HPA │ └── poddisruptionbudget.yaml # PDB └── README.md # This file ``` ## 📦 Chart Information - **Name**: api7ee-demo-k8s - **Version**: 0.1.0 - **App Version**: 1.0.0 - **Type**: application - **Keywords**: api7, api-gateway, web, api - **Home**: https://demo.commandware.it - **Sources**: https://git.commandware.com/demos/api7-demo ## 📄 Resources ### Documentation - **Helm**: https://helm.sh/docs/ - **API7 Enterprise**: https://docs.api7.ai/ - **Kubernetes**: https://kubernetes.io/docs/ ### Related - [Main README](../../README.md) - [Web Application README](../../web/README.md) - [API Application README](../../api/README.md) ## 🤝 Support - **Issues**: https://git.commandware.com/demos/api7-demo/issues - **Email**: support@commandware.com - **Repository**: https://git.commandware.com/demos/api7-demo --- **Chart Version**: 0.1.0 | **Maintainer**: CommandWare | **License**: Demo Project