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Version: 3.8

[Deprecated] Configure a custom values file for ScalarDB GraphQL

note

ScalarDB GraphQL Server is now deprecated. Please use ScalarDB Cluster instead.

This document explains how to create your custom values file for the ScalarDB GraphQL chart. If you want to know the details of the parameters, please refer to the README of the ScalarDB GraphQL chart.

Required configurations​

Ingress configuration​

You must set ingress to listen the client requests. When you deploy multiple GraphQL servers, session affinity is required to handle transactions properly. This is because GraphQL servers keep the transactions in memory, so GraphQL queries that use continued transactions must be routed to the same server that started the transaction.

For example, if you use NGINX Ingress Controller, you can set ingress configurations as follows.

ingress:
  enabled: true
  className: nginx
  annotations:
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-path: /
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/affinity: cookie
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-name: INGRESSCOOKIE
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-hash: sha1
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-max-age: "300"
  hosts:
    - host: ""
      paths:
        - path: /graphql
          pathType: Exact

If you use ALB of AWS, you can set ingress configurations as follows.

ingress:
  enabled: true
  className: alb
  annotations:
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/scheme: internal
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-group-attributes: stickiness.enabled=true,stickiness.lb_cookie.duration_seconds=60
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-type: ip
    alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-path: /graphql?query=%7B__typename%7D
  hosts:
    - host: ""
      paths:
        - path: /graphql
          pathType: Exact

Image configurations​

You must set image.repository. Be sure to specify the ScalarDB GraphQL container image so that you can pull the image from the container repository.

image:
  repository: <SCALARDB_GRAPHQL_SERVER_CONTAINER_IMAGE>

If you're using AWS or Azure, please refer to the following documents for more details:

Database configurations​

You must set scalarDbGraphQlConfiguration.

If you use ScalarDB Server with ScalarDB GraphQL (recommended), you must set the configuration to access the ScalarDB Server pods.

scalarDbGraphQlConfiguration:
  contactPoints: <ScalarDB Server host>
  contactPort: 60051
  storage: "grpc"
  transactionManager: "grpc"
  namespaces: <Schema name includes tables>

Optional configurations​

If you want to control pod resources using the requests and limits of Kubernetes, you can use resources.

Note that the resources for one pod of Scalar products are limited to 2vCPU / 4GB memory from the perspective of the commercial license. Also, when you get the pay-as-you-go containers provided from AWS Marketplace, you cannot run those containers with more than 2vCPU / 4GB memory configuration in the resources.limits. When you exceed this limitation, pods are automatically stopped.

You can configure them using the same syntax as the requests and limits of Kubernetes. So, please refer to the official document Resource Management for Pods and Containers for more details on the requests and limits of Kubernetes.

resources:
  requests:
    cpu: 2000m
    memory: 4Gi
  limits:
    cpu: 2000m
    memory: 4Gi

If you want to control pod deployment using the affinity and anti-affinity of Kubernetes, you can use affinity.

You can configure them using the same syntax as the affinity of Kubernetes. So, please refer to the official document Assigning Pods to Nodes for more details on the affinity configuration of Kubernetes.

affinity:
  podAntiAffinity:
    preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
      - podAffinityTerm:
          labelSelector:
            matchExpressions:
              - key: app.kubernetes.io/app
                operator: In
                values:
                  - scalardb-graphql
          topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
        weight: 50

If you want to monitor ScalarDB GraphQL pods using kube-prometheus-stack, you can deploy a ConfigMap, a ServiceMonitor, and a PrometheusRule resource for kube-prometheus-stack using grafanaDashboard.enabled, serviceMonitor.enabled, and prometheusRule.enabled.

grafanaDashboard:
  enabled: true
  namespace: monitoring
serviceMonitor:
  enabled: true
  namespace: monitoring
  interval: 15s
prometheusRule:
  enabled: true
  namespace: monitoring

If you want to set SecurityContext and PodSecurityContext for ScalarDB GraphQL pods, you can use securityContext and podSecurityContext.

You can configure them using the same syntax as SecurityContext and PodSecurityContext of Kubernetes. So, please refer to the official document Configure a Security Context for a Pod or Container for more details on the SecurityContext and PodSecurityContext configurations of Kubernetes.

podSecurityContext:
  seccompProfile:
    type: RuntimeDefault

securityContext:
  capabilities:
    drop:
      - ALL
  runAsNonRoot: true
  allowPrivilegeEscalation: false

GraphQL Server configurations (Optional based on your environment)​

If you want to change the path to run the graphql queries, you can use scalarDbGraphQlConfiguration.path. By default, you can run the graphql queries using http://<FQDN of ingress>:80/graphql.

You can also enable/disable GraphiQL using scalarDbGraphQlConfiguration.graphiql.

scalarDbGraphQlConfiguration:
  path: /graphql
  graphiql: "true"

TLS configurations (Optional based on your environment)​

If you want to use TLS between the client and the ingress, you can use ingress.tls.

You must create a Secret resource that includes a secret key and a certificate file. Please refer to the official document Ingress - TLS for more details on the Secret resource for Ingress.

ingress:
  tls:
    - hosts:
        - foo.example.com
        - bar.example.com
        - bax.example.com
      secretName: graphql-ingress-tls

Replica configurations (Optional based on your environment)​

You can specify the number of replicas (pods) of ScalarDB GraphQL using replicaCount.

replicaCount: 3

Logging configurations (Optional based on your environment)​

If you want to change the log level of ScalarDB GraphQL, you can use scalarDbGraphQlConfiguration.logLevel.

scalarDbGraphQlConfiguration:
  logLevel: INFO

Taint and toleration configurations (Optional based on your environment)​

If you want to control pod deployment by using the taints and tolerations in Kubernetes, you can use tolerations.

You can configure taints and tolerations by using the same syntax as the tolerations in Kubernetes. For details on configuring tolerations in Kubernetes, see the official Kubernetes documentation Taints and Tolerations.

tolerations:
  - effect: NoSchedule
    key: scalar-labs.com/dedicated-node
    operator: Equal
    value: scalardb