README.md

GKE Multitenant Blueprint

This blueprint presents an opinionated architecture to handle multiple homogeneous GKE clusters. The general idea behind this blueprint is to deploy a single project hosting multiple clusters leveraging several useful GKE features.

The pattern used in this design is useful, for blueprint, in cases where multiple clusters host/support the same workloads, such as in the case of a multi-regional deployment. Furthermore, combined with Anthos Config Sync and proper RBAC, this architecture can be used to host multiple tenants (e.g. teams, applications) sharing the clusters.

This blueprint is used as part of the FAST GKE stage but it can also be used independently if desired.

The overall architecture is based on the following design decisions:

• All clusters are assumed to be private, therefore only VPC-native clusters are supported.
• Logging and monitoring configured to use Cloud Operations for system components and user workloads.
• GKE metering enabled by default and stored in a bigquery dataset created within the project.
• Optional GKE Fleet support with the possibility to enable any of the following features:
  • Fleet workload identity
  • Anthos Config Management
  • Anthos Service Mesh
  • Anthos Identity Service
  • Multi-cluster services
  • Multi-cluster ingress.
• Support for Config Sync, Hierarchy Controller, and Policy Controller when using Anthos Config Management.
• Groups for GKE can be enabled to facilitate the creation of flexible RBAC policies referencing group principals.
• Support for application layer secret encryption.
• Support to customize peering configuration of the control plane VPC (e.g. to import/export routes to the peered network)
• Some features are enabled by default in all clusters:
  • Intranode visibility
  • Dataplane v2
  • Shielded GKE nodes
  • Workload identity
  • Node local DNS cache
  • Use of the GCE persistent disk CSI driver
  • Node auto-upgrade and auto-repair for all node pools

Basic usage

The following example shows how to deploy a single cluster and a single node pool

module "gke" {
  source             = "./fabric/blueprints/gke/multitenant-fleet/"
  project_id         = var.project_id
  billing_account_id = var.billing_account_id
  folder_id          = var.folder_id
  prefix             = "myprefix"
  vpc_config = {
    host_project_id = "my-host-project-id"
    vpc_self_link   = "projects/my-host-project-id/global/networks/my-network"
  }

  authenticator_security_group = "[email protected]"
  group_iam = {
    "[email protected]" = [
      "roles/container.admin"
    ]
  }
  iam = {
    "roles/container.clusterAdmin" = [
      "[email protected]"
    ]
  }

  clusters = {
    mycluster = {
      cluster_autoscaling = null
      description         = "My cluster"
      dns_domain          = null
      location            = "europe-west1"
      labels              = {}
      net = {
        master_range = "172.17.16.0/28"
        pods         = "pods"
        services     = "services"
        subnet       = "projects/my-host-project-id/regions/europe-west1/subnetworks/mycluster-subnet"
      }
      overrides = null
    }
  }
  nodepools = {
    mycluster = {
      mynodepool = {
        initial_node_count = 1
        node_count         = 1
        node_type          = "n2-standard-4"
        overrides          = null
        spot               = false
      }
    }
  }
}
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Creating Multiple Clusters

The following example shows how to deploy two clusters with different configurations.

The first cluster cluster-euw1 defines the mandatory configuration parameters (description, location, network setup) and inherits the some defaults from the cluster_defaults and nodepool_deaults variables. These two variables are used whenever the override key of the clusters and nodepools variables are set to null.

On the other hand, the second cluster (cluster-euw3) defines its own configuration by providing a value to the overrides key.

module "gke" {
  source             = "./fabric/blueprints/gke/multitenant-fleet/"
  project_id         = var.project_id
  billing_account_id = var.billing_account_id
  folder_id          = var.folder_id
  prefix             = "myprefix"
  vpc_config = {
    host_project_id = "my-host-project-id"
    vpc_self_link   = "projects/my-host-project-id/global/networks/my-network"
  }
  clusters = {
    cluster-euw1 = {
      cluster_autoscaling = null
      description         = "Cluster for europ-west1"
      dns_domain          = null
      location            = "europe-west1"
      labels              = {}
      net = {
        master_range = "172.17.16.0/28"
        pods         = "pods"
        services     = "services"
        subnet       = "projects/my-host-project-id/regions/europe-west1/subnetworks/euw1-subnet"
      }
      overrides = null
    }
    cluster-euw3 = {
      cluster_autoscaling = null
      description         = "Cluster for europe-west3"
      dns_domain          = null
      location            = "europe-west3"
      labels              = {}
      net = {
        master_range = "172.17.17.0/28"
        pods         = "pods"
        services     = "services"
        subnet       = "projects/my-host-project-id/regions/europe-west3/subnetworks/euw3-subnet"
      }
      overrides = {
        cloudrun_config                 = false
        database_encryption_key         = null
        gcp_filestore_csi_driver_config = true
        master_authorized_ranges = {
          rfc1918_1 = "10.0.0.0/8"
        }
        max_pods_per_node        = 64
        pod_security_policy      = true
        release_channel          = "STABLE"
        vertical_pod_autoscaling = false
      }
    }
  }
  nodepools = {
    cluster-euw1 = {
      pool-euw1 = {
        initial_node_count = 1
        node_count         = 1
        node_type          = "n2-standard-4"
        overrides          = null
        spot               = false
      }
    }
    cluster-euw3 = {
      pool-euw3 = {
        initial_node_count = 1
        node_count         = 1
        node_type          = "n2-standard-4"
        overrides = {
          image_type        = "UBUNTU_CONTAINERD"
          max_pods_per_node = 64
          node_locations    = []
          node_tags         = []
          node_taints       = []
        }
        spot = true
      }
    }
  }
}
# tftest modules=7 resources=28

Multiple clusters with GKE Fleet

This example deploys two clusters and configures several GKE Fleet features:

• Enables multi-cluster ingress and sets the configuration cluster to be cluster-eu1.
• Enables Multi-cluster services and assigns the required roles to its service accounts.
• A default Config Management template is created with binary authorization, config sync enabled with a git repository, hierarchy controller, and policy controller.
• The two clusters are configured to use the default Config Management template.

module "gke" {
  source             = "./fabric/blueprints/gke/multitenant-fleet/"
  project_id         = var.project_id
  billing_account_id = var.billing_account_id
  folder_id          = var.folder_id
  prefix             = "myprefix"
  vpc_config = {
    host_project_id = "my-host-project-id"
    vpc_self_link   = "projects/my-host-project-id/global/networks/my-network"
  }
  clusters = {
    cluster-euw1 = {
      cluster_autoscaling = null
      description         = "Cluster for europe-west1"
      dns_domain          = null
      location            = "europe-west1"
      labels              = {}
      net = {
        master_range = "172.17.16.0/28"
        pods         = "pods"
        services     = "services"
        subnet       = "projects/my-host-project-id/regions/europe-west1/subnetworks/euw1-subnet"
      }
      overrides = null
    }
    cluster-euw3 = {
      cluster_autoscaling = null
      description         = "Cluster for europe-west3"
      dns_domain          = null
      location            = "europe-west3"
      labels              = {}
      net = {
        master_range = "172.17.17.0/28"
        pods         = "pods"
        services     = "services"
        subnet       = "projects/my-host-project-id/regions/europe-west3/subnetworks/euw3-subnet"
      }
      overrides = null
    }
  }
  nodepools = {
    cluster-euw1 = {
      pool-euw1 = {
        initial_node_count = 1
        node_count         = 1
        node_type          = "n2-standard-4"
        overrides          = null
        spot               = false
      }
    }
    cluster-euw3 = {
      pool-euw3 = {
        initial_node_count = 1
        node_count         = 1
        node_type          = "n2-standard-4"
        overrides          = null
        spot               = true
      }
    }
  }

  fleet_features = {
    appdevexperience             = false
    configmanagement             = true
    identityservice              = true
    multiclusteringress          = "cluster-euw1"
    multiclusterservicediscovery = true
    servicemesh                  = true
  }
  fleet_workload_identity = true
  fleet_configmanagement_templates = {
    default = {
      binauthz = true
      config_sync = {
        git = {
          gcp_service_account_email = null
          https_proxy               = null
          policy_dir                = "configsync"
          secret_type               = "none"
          source_format             = "hierarchy"
          sync_branch               = "main"
          sync_repo                 = "https://github.com/myorg/myrepo"
          sync_rev                  = null
          sync_wait_secs            = null
        }
        prevent_drift = true
        source_format = "hierarchy"
      }
      hierarchy_controller = {
        enable_hierarchical_resource_quota = true
        enable_pod_tree_labels             = true
      }
      policy_controller    = {
        audit_interval_seconds     = 30
        exemptable_namespaces      = ["kube-system"]
        log_denies_enabled         = true
        referential_rules_enabled  = true
        template_library_installed = true
      }
      version              = "1.10.2"
    }
  }
  fleet_configmanagement_clusters = {
    default = ["cluster-euw1", "cluster-euw3"]
  }
}

# tftest modules=8 resources=39

Files

name	description	modules
gke-clusters.tf	None	gke-cluster
gke-hub.tf	None	gke-hub
gke-nodepools.tf	None	gke-nodepool
main.tf	Module-level locals and resources.	bigquery-dataset · project
outputs.tf	Output variables.
variables.tf	Module variables.

Variables

name	description	type	required	default	producer
billing_account_id	Billing account id.	string	✓
clusters		map(object({…}))	✓
folder_id	Folder used for the GKE project in folders/nnnnnnnnnnn format.	string	✓
nodepools		map(map(object({…})))	✓
prefix	Prefix used for resources that need unique names.	string	✓
project_id	ID of the project that will contain all the clusters.	string	✓
vpc_config	Shared VPC project and VPC details.	object({…})	✓
authenticator_security_group	Optional group used for Groups for GKE.	string		null
cluster_defaults	Default values for optional cluster configurations.	object({…})		{…}
dns_domain	Domain name used for clusters, prefixed by each cluster name. Leave null to disable Cloud DNS for GKE.	string		null
fleet_configmanagement_clusters	Config management features enabled on specific sets of member clusters, in config name => [cluster name] format.	map(list(string))		{}
fleet_configmanagement_templates	Sets of config management configurations that can be applied to member clusters, in config name => {options} format.	map(object({…}))		{}
fleet_features	Enable and configue fleet features. Set to null to disable GKE Hub if fleet workload identity is not used.	object({…})		null
fleet_workload_identity	Use Fleet Workload Identity for clusters. Enables GKE Hub if set to true.	bool		false
group_iam	Project-level IAM bindings for groups. Use group emails as keys, list of roles as values.	map(list(string))		{}
iam	Project-level authoritative IAM bindings for users and service accounts in {ROLE => [MEMBERS]} format.	map(list(string))		{}
labels	Project-level labels.	map(string)		{}
nodepool_defaults		object({…})		{…}
peering_config	Configure peering with the control plane VPC. Requires compute.networks.updatePeering. Set to null if you don't want to update the default peering configuration.	object({…})		{…}
project_services	Additional project services to enable.	list(string)		[]

Outputs

name	description	sensitive	consumers
cluster_ids	Cluster ids.
clusters	Cluster resources.
project_id	GKE project id.