NGINX

This section provides information about how to install and configure the ingress-based NGINX load balancer to load balance Oracle WebCenter Sites domain clusters. You can configure NGINX for access of the application URL.

Follow these steps to set up NGINX as a load balancer for an Oracle WebCenter Sites domain in a Kubernetes cluster:

See the official installation document for prerequisites.

Add the Helm repos (if not added)

Add following Helm repos

$ helm repo add ingress-nginx https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx
$ helm repo update

Install the NGINX load balancer

Here is the helm install command with the default value for http port.

```bash
$ helm install nginx-ingress -n wcsites-ns \
    --set controller.service.type=NodePort \
    --set controller.admissionWebhooks.enabled=false \ 
    --set controller.service.nodePorts.http=30305 \
    ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx 
```

Create an Ingress for the Domain

  1. Create an ingress for the domain in the domain namespace by using the sample Helm chart. Here path-based routing is used for ingress. Sample values for default configuration are shown in the file ${WORKDIR}/kubernetes/charts/ingress-per-domain/values.yaml. By default, type is TRAEFIK , sslType is NONSSL, and domainType is wcs. These values can be overridden by passing values through the command line or can be edited in the sample file values.yaml.
    If needed, you can update the ingress YAML file to define more path rules (in section spec.rules.host.http.paths) based on the domain application URLs that need to be accessed. Update the template YAML file for the NGINX load balancer located at ${WORKDIR}/kubernetes/charts/ingress-per-domain/templates/nginx-ingress.yaml.

    For detailed instructions about ingress, see this page.

    For now, you can update the kubernetes/charts/ingress-per-domain/values.yaml with appropriate values.

  2. Update the kubernetes/charts/ingress-per-domain/templates/nginx-ingress.yaml with the url routes to be load balanced.

    NOTE: This is not an exhaustive list of rules. You can enhance it based on the application urls that need to be accessed externally. These rules hold good for domain type wcs.

  3. Install “ingress-per-domain” using helm.

    Helm Install ingress-per-domain

    $ helm install wcsitesinfra-ingress kubernetes/charts/ingress-per-domain \
    --namespace wcsites-ns \
    --values kubernetes/charts/ingress-per-domain/values.yaml \
    --set "nginx.hostname=$(hostname -f)" \
    --set type=NGINX

NAME: wcsitesinfra-ingress
LAST DEPLOYED: Fri July 9 00:18:50 2020
NAMESPACE: wcsites-ns
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None

  4. To confirm that the load balancer noticed the new Ingress and is successfully routing to the domain’s server pods, you can send a request to the URL for the “WebLogic ReadyApp framework” which should return a HTTP 200 status code, as shown in the example below:

-bash-4.2$ curl -v http://${LOADBALANCER-HOSTNAME}:${LOADBALANCER-PORT}/weblogic/ready
*   Trying 149.87.129.203...
> GET http://${LOADBALANCER-HOSTNAME}:${LOADBALANCER-PORT}/weblogic/ready HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
> Accept: */*
> Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
> host: $(hostname -f)
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 08:35:03 GMT
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Content-Length: 0
< Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
<
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact

Verify that You can Access the Domain URL

After setting up the nginx loadbalancer, verify that the domain applications are accessible through the loadbalancer port 30305. Through load balancer (nginx port 30305), the following URLs are available for setting up domains of WebCenter Sites domain types:

http://${LOADBALANCER-HOSTNAME}:${LOADBALANCER-PORT}/weblogic/ready
http://${LOADBALANCER-HOSTNAME}:${LOADBALANCER-PORT}/console
http://${LOADBALANCER-HOSTNAME}:${LOADBALANCER-PORT}/em
http://${LOADBALANCER-HOSTNAME}:${LOADBALANCER-PORT}/sites/version.jsp