How to deploy Uptime Kuma on kubernetes

I’ve been running Uptime Kuma on a podman-container for a long time with no problem. Recently, though, I’ve been running a mini Kubernetes cluster at home, and decided to move this conatainer to the same cluster.

The following is to document how I deploy Uptime Kuma on a Kubernetes cluster.

As I’m new to Kubernetes world, I broke down the tasks I need to do in 6 pieces:

$ ls -1
1.namespace.yaml
2.service.yaml
3.pvc.yaml
4.deployment.yaml
5.tls-secret.yaml
6.ingress.yaml

1. The first step is to create a new namespace for this application or deployment. It’ll be called ‘uptime-kuma’.

$ cat 1.namespace.yaml
kind: Namespace
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: uptime-kuma

$ kubectl apply -f ./1.namespace.yaml

2. Create a new service, which will listen on port 3001.

$ cat 2.service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: uptime-kuma-svc
  namespace: uptime-kuma
spec:
  selector:
    app: uptime-kuma
  ports:
  - name: uptime-kuma
    port: 3001
    targetPort: 3001
    protocol: TCP

3. Next is to create a persistent volume claim for Uptime Kuma’s app data. Based on the current usage on my existing podman-container, 512 MiB is plenty. In my cluster, I use Longhorn as the persistent block storage.

$ cat 3.pvc.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: uptime-kuma-pvc
  namespace: uptime-kuma
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  storageClassName: longhorn
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 512Mi

4. Here is the deployment file.

$ cat 4.deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: uptime-kuma
  namespace: uptime-kuma
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: uptime-kuma
  replicas: 1
  strategy:
    type: RollingUpdate
    rollingUpdate:
      maxSurge: 1
      maxUnavailable: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: uptime-kuma
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: uptime-kuma
        image: louislam/uptime-kuma:1.23.11
        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
        ports:
        - containerPort: 3001
          name: web-ui
        resources:
          limits:
            cpu: 200m
            memory: 512Mi
          requests:
            cpu: 50m
            memory: 128Mi
        livenessProbe:
          tcpSocket:
            port: web-ui
          initialDelaySeconds: 60
          periodSeconds: 10
        readinessProbe:
          httpGet:
            scheme: HTTP
            path: /
            port: web-ui
          initialDelaySeconds: 30
          periodSeconds: 10
        volumeMounts:
        - name: data
          mountPath: /app/data
      volumes:
      - name: data
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: uptime-kuma-pvc

5. (Optional) I want to use SSL when accessing the web UI of Uptime Kuma, therefore I need to create a new TLS secret.

$ cat 5.tls-secret.yaml
apiVersion: v1
data:
  tls.crt: VERY-LONG-BASE-64-ENCODED-STRING
  tls.key: ANOTHER-LONG-BASE-64-ENCODED-STRING
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: wildcard-tls-secret
  namespace: uptime-kuma
type: kubernetes.io/tls

6. The last file 6.ingress.yaml contains the manifest for ingress-nginx which allows me to access the Uptime Kuma at https://uptime.home-lab-internal-domain.com:

$ cat 6.ingress.yaml
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: uptime-kuma-ingress
  namespace: uptime-kuma
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  tls:
  - hosts:
    - uptime.home-lab-internal-domain.com
    secretName: wildcard-tls-secret
  rules:
  - host: uptime.home-lab-internal-domain.com
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: uptime-kuma-svc
            port:
              number: 3001

References:

• Install Uptime Kuma on Kubernetes
• SHORTY – How to deploy Uptime-Kuma on Kubernetes