Wallaroo DNS Configuration Guide

Integrate Wallaroo Enterprise Into an Organization’s DNS.

DNS services integration is required for Wallaroo Enterprise to provide access to the various supporting services that are part of the Wallaroo instance. These include:

Simplified user authentication and management.
Centralized services for accessing the Wallaroo Dashboard, Wallaroo SDK and Authentication.
Collaboration features allowing teams to work together.
Managed security, auditing and traceability.

The following guide is for standard DNS services.

Once integrated, users can access the following services directly from a URL starting with the Wallaroo Domain - this is the domain name where other DNS entries are appended to. For example, if the Wallaroo Domain is wallaroo.example.com, then the other services would be referenced by https://wallaroo.sample.com/{service}.

Note that even when accessing specific Wallaroo services directly that the user must still be authenticated through Wallaroo.

Service	Path	Description
Wallaroo Dashboard	`wallaroo domain`	Provides access to a user interface for updating workspaces, pipelines, and models. Also provides access to the integrated JupyterHub service.
API	`v1/api`	Provides access to the Wallaroo API.
Authentication	`auth`	Provides access to the Wallaroo Authentication Service.
Edge Observability	`edge`	Optional service for edge and multicloud deployments to report inference results back to the Wallaroo Ops instance.

Connections to Wallaroo services are provided as https://{Wallaroo Domain}/service. For example, if the Wallaroo Domain is wallaroo.example.com then the URLs to access the various Wallaroo services would be:

Base URL: https://wallaroo.example.com
Wallaroo MLOps API: https://wallaroo.example.com/v1/api
Authentication Service URL: https://wallaroo.example.com/auth

Prerequisites

Install Wallaroo Enterprise into a qualified environment. For more details, see the Wallaroo Install Guides and the Wallaroo Enterprise Install Guides.
Determine whether your organization will use a prefix or not as detailed above.
Generate the SSL Certificates. See How to update SSL Certificates for Wallaroo for instructions on generating SSL certificates and updating the Wallaroo instance with new certificates.
Have access to internal corporate DNS configurations that can be updated. A subdomain for the Wallaroo instance will be created through this process.
Install kubectl into the Kubernetes cluster administrative node.

Wallaroo IP Address Retrieval Methods

The first step is to retrieve the IP address connected to the Wallaroo load balancer for the cluster.

Retrieve LoadBalancer IP with kubectl

For most organizations that install Wallaroo into a cloud based Kubernetes cluster such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, etc the external IP address is tied to Wallaroo LoadBalancer service. This can be retrieved with the kubectl command as follows:

Retrieve the external IP address for your Wallaroo instance LoadBalancer. For example, this can be performed through the following kubectl command:

kubectl get svc api-lb-ext -n wallaroo -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip}'

34.83.140.98

An alternative to this command to show all services is the following:

kubectl get svc  -A

Example Result:

kubectl get svc  -A
NAMESPACE     NAME                      TYPE           CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP     PORT(S)                         AGE
default       kubernetes                ClusterIP      10.25.64.1     <none>          443/TCP                         50d
gmp-system    alertmanager              ClusterIP      None           <none>          9093/TCP                        50d
gmp-system    gmp-operator              ClusterIP      10.25.70.18    <none>          8443/TCP,443/TCP                50d
kube-system   default-http-backend      NodePort       10.25.67.38    <none>          80:31378/TCP                    50d
kube-system   kube-dns                  ClusterIP      10.25.64.10    <none>          53/UDP,53/TCP                   50d
kube-system   metrics-server            ClusterIP      10.25.67.8     <none>          443/TCP                         50d
wallaroo      alertconfig               ClusterIP      10.25.67.141   <none>          9094/TCP                        2m30s
wallaroo      alertmanager              ClusterIP      10.25.77.167   <none>          9093/TCP                        2m30s
wallaroo      api-lb                    ClusterIP      10.25.79.188   <none>          8080/TCP                        2m31s
wallaroo      api-lb-admin              ClusterIP      10.25.70.0     <none>          9901/TCP                        2m31s
wallaroo      api-lb-ext                LoadBalancer   10.25.69.9     34.83.140.98    80:30715/TCP,443:32664/TCP      2m31s
wallaroo      dashboard                 ClusterIP      10.25.72.14    <none>          4567/TCP                        2m31s
wallaroo      wallsvc                   ClusterIP      10.25.75.74    <none>          3040/TCP                        2m30s

Some cloud providers may provide multiple external IP addresses for the api-lb service. For some services such as Oracle, this is typically a 10 net address, with the second IP address being the actual external address. Verify the IP address before changing DNS settings.

Other Methods

For organizations install Wallaroo other methods, such as Single Node Linux may find the kubectl get svc api-lb-ext command only returns the internal IP address.

Depending on the instance, there are different methods of acquiring that IP address. The links below reference difference sources.

Refer to your Wallaroo support representative if further assistance is needed.

DNS Entries

Create DNS the following entries based on the list above for the Wallaroo instance’s IP address. Select the cloud environment used for DNS services.

For AWS Clusters:
- Wallaroo domain: CN (CNAME) record referring to the AWS EKS cluster endpoint. For example: wallaroo.example.com.
For all other cloud services:
- Wallaroo domain: A record, NS (Name Server) record, SOA (Start Of Authority) record. For example: wallaroo.example.com
References:
- AWS: Enabling DNS resolution for Amazon EKS cluster endpoints.
- Microsoft Azure Manage DNS records and record sets by using the Azure portal.
- GCP: GCP Add, modify, and delete records.
- Oracle OCI: Configuring DNS Servers for Kubernetes Clusters.

Update DNS Services for Wallaroo

Select the method of updating DNS services based on the method of installing Wallaroo: kots or helm.

Update DNS Configuration for Wallaroo for Kots Installations

The following is for configuring DNS services in Wallaroo for a Kots based installation.

Access the Kots Administrative Dashboard in a browser. This can be done either after installation, or through the following command (assuming the Wallaroo instance was installed into the namespace wallaroo). By default this provides the Kots Administrative Dashboard through the URL https://localhost:8800.
```
kubectl kots admin-console --namespace wallaroo
```
From the Wallaroo Dashboard, select Config and set the following:
1. DNS Settings
  1. Wallaroo domain name (Required): The domain for the Wallaroo instance.
Once complete, scroll to the bottom of the Config page and select Save config.
A pop-up window will display The config for Wallaroo Enterprise has been updated.. Select Go to updated version to continue.
From the Version History page, select Deploy. Once the new deployment is finished, you will be able to access Wallaroo services via their DNS addresses.

To verify the configuration is complete, access the Wallaroo Dashboard through the Wallaroo domain. For example if the Wallaroo domain is wallaroo.example.com then access https://wallaroo.example.com in a browser and verify the connection and certificates.

Update DNS Services for Helm Installations

The following instructions are for installations of Wallaroo in a Helm based installation. By default, the DNS settings for the Wallaroo instance are configured during the installation. For more information, see Helm Based Install Guides.

The following shows how to update the DNS and security certificates for existing Wallaroo installations.

Set the Wallaroo Domain Name for Helm

The Wallaroo domain name are set with the following Helm variables:

wallarooDomain: The DNS name for the Wallaroo instance.
custTlsSecretName: The Kubernetes secret storing the certificate information.

The following is a minimum local-values.yaml file with the Wallaroo Domain set to wallaroo.example.com:

wallarooDomain: "wallaroo.example.com" # change to match the domain name

custTlsSecretName: cust-cert-secret

apilb:
  serviceType: LoadBalancer
  external_inference_endpoints_enabled: true
  ingress_mode: internal # internal (Default), external,or none

dashboard:
  clientName: "Wallaroo Helm Example" # Insert the name displayed in the Wallaroo Dashboard

kubernetes_distribution: ""   # Required. One of: aks, eks, gke, oke, or kurl.

Update the helm based installation with the helm upgrade command in the following format:
```
helm upgrade $RELEASE $REGISTRYURL --version $VERSION--values $LOCALVALUES.yaml --timeout 10m
```
Where:
1. $RELEASE: The name of the Helm release. By default, wallaroo.
2. $REGISTRYURL: The URl for the Wallaroo container registry service.
3. $VERSION: The version of Wallaroo to install. For this example, 2024.2.1.
4. $LOCALVALUES: The .yaml file containing the local values overrides. For this example, local-values.yaml.
For example, for the release wallaroo the command would be:
```
helm upgrade wallaroo oci://registry.replicated.com/wallaroo/2024-2/wallaroo --version 2024.2.1 --values local-values.yaml --timeout 10m
```

Edge Observability Enablement

For organizations that deploy Wallaroo pipelines on edge devices as Wallaroo Servers, see the DNS settings from the Edge Deployment Registry Guide.