Linux Installation
The Fluvio CLI (command-line interface) is an all-in-one tool for setting up, interacting, and managing with Fluvio clusters.
Install the Fluvio CLI by running the following command:
curl -fsS https://packages.fluvio.io/v1/install.sh | bash
If you have docker, kubectl, helm, and minikube already set up, then continue to steps for running a local Fluvio cluster.
Docker is a container engine which is used by Minikube to run a local Kubernetes cluster.
Follow the instructions for your Linux distro to install Docker engine for Linux.
Minikube is a tool for running a local Kubernetes cluster
Follow the instructions at the Minikube installation page to download and install minikube for your Linux distro.
Start a Kubernetes cluster locally with minikube by running the following in a terminal window:
$ minikube start
kubectl is the Kubernetes command-line tool. It is used to run commands against Kubernetes clusters.
Follow the instructions at the kubectl installation page and follow the instructions to download and install kubectl on Linux.
Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes.
Follow the instructions at the helm installation page and follow the instructions to download and install helm on Linux.
You can start a Fluvio cluster by running fluvio cluster start.
If this is your first time starting a cluster in your session, be prepared to enter your password.
$ fluvio cluster start
✅ ok: Kubernetes config is loadable
✅ ok: Supported helm version is installed
✅ ok: Fluvio system charts are installed
✅ ok: Previous fluvio installation not found
Waiting up to 120 seconds for Fluvio cluster version check...
Successfully installed Fluvio!
You can start a Fluvio cluster by running fluvio cluster start.
If this is your first time starting a cluster in your session, be prepared to enter your password.
$ fluvio cluster start
✅ ok: Kubernetes config is loadable
✅ ok: Supported helm version is installed
✅ ok: Fluvio system charts are installed
✅ ok: Previous fluvio installation not found
Waiting up to 120 seconds for Fluvio cluster version check...
Successfully installed Fluvio!
We can verify that our Fluvio components are running with kubectl
All Fluvio pods in the default namespace should be running.
$ kubectl get po
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
fluvio-sc-695cfb4cf5-89lss 1/1 Running 0 15s
fluvio-spg-main-0 1/1 Running 0 9s
You can check that everything worked by listing out the cluster’s SPUs:
$ fluvio cluster spu list
ID NAME STATUS TYPE RACK PUBLIC PRIVATE
0 main-0 Online "managed" - 192.168.99.103:31314 fluvio-spg-main-0.fluvio-spg-main:9006
The public address of the cluster’s SPU should match the IP from minikube ip and the NodePort for the fluvio-spu-main-0 kubernetes service.
$ minikube ip
192.168.99.103
$ kubectl get svc
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
fluvio-sc-internal ClusterIP 10.99.183.216 <none> 9004/TCP 58s
fluvio-sc-public NodePort 10.109.6.50 <none> 9003:30763/TCP 58s
fluvio-spg-main ClusterIP None <none> 9005/TCP,9006/TCP 52s
fluvio-spu-main-0 NodePort 10.100.254.17 <none> 9005:31314/TCP 52s
kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 15h
Congratulations, you’ve successfully installed Fluvio on your local machine!
Let’s use the Fluvio CLI to play with some basic functionality.
The first thing we need to do is create a topic.
$ fluvio topic create greetings
topic "greetings" created
Now that we have a topic, we can produce some messages!
Use the following command to send a message to the greetings topic:
$ echo "Hello, Fluvio" | fluvio produce greetings
Ok!
Finally, we can consume messages back from the topic
$ fluvio consume greetings -B -d
Hello, Fluvio
Way to go! You’re well on your way to writing real-time distributed apps with Fluvio!
Next, check out our Tutorials page to see real-world examples of Fluvio in action.
If you run into any problems along the way, make sure to check out our troubleshooting page to find a fix.
