K3s: Unable to disable Traefik

[riker09]

Version:
k3s version v1.0.0 (18bd921c)

Describe the bug
I am unable to disable the build-in traefik load balancer.

To Reproduce
According to documentation all files in /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests are automatically deployed. I have removed the traefik.yaml file from this folder and changed /etc/systemd/system/k3s.service, followed by systemctl daemon-reload (everything as root user, of course).

The new service file has these lines in it:

ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/k3s \
    server \
    --docker \
    --no-deploy traefik \

Restart k3s service with service k3s stop && service k3s start. (yes, I also tried service k3s restart)

Expected behavior

Expected kubectl -n kube-system get pods to not list traefik pod.

Actual behavior

The pod is still restarted on each service restart.

Additional context

Ubuntu 19.10 with Docker 19.03.2.

[a01fe]

I think you'll have to manually remove the resources defined by traefik.yaml. Removing the manifest and restarting won't remove any resources that already exist.

[riker09]

I guess then the official documentation is somewhat misleading. It says in docs:

To disable it [Traefik], start each server with the --no-deploy traefik option.

Obviously when installing k3s with the install script this is not enough. I also have to remove the previously created resources. I haven't checked it, but is there a configuration switch in the install.sh script that prevents deploying resources to the cluster during initial setup?

[riker09]

For the record and future me, this is what needs to be done to disable Traefik during initial setup:

1. Remove traefik helm chart resource: kubectl -n kube-system delete helmcharts.helm.cattle.io traefik
2. Stop the k3s service: sudo service k3s stop
3. Edit service file sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/k3s.service and add this line to ExecStart:

    --no-deploy traefik \

1. Reload the service file: sudo systemctl daemon-reload
2. Remove the manifest file from auto-deploy folder: sudo rm /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/traefik.yaml
3. Start the k3s service: sudo service k3s start

[galal-hussein]

@riker09 you can still use the no-deploy with the install script, you just need to run the command as follows:

curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | INSTALL_K3S_EXEC="server --no-deploy traefik" sh

This will configure the server with no traefik and you wont find it in the manifests

thats also described here in the docs https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/installation/install-options/#installation-script-options

[davidnuzik]

Use the --no-deploy traefik flag and value when installing. Please let us know if there are any other questions / concerns.

[khayyamsaleem]

Just updating to mention that --no-deploy is deprecated, and now people referring to this should use --disable instead.