offline-license-server

AppsCode License server. We call it offline license server because once you have received the license file, no further connection is required with the license server. So, these licenses can be used within an air-gapped Kubernetes cluster.

License Validity

A License file is a valid for a given Kubernetes cluster. For the community edition, you will receive a license that is valid for 1 year. For the enterprise edition, this server will issue a 30 day trial license. If you are interested in purchasing Enterprise license, please contact us via [email protected] for further discussion. You can also set up a meeting via our calendly link.

Cluster UID

We use the uid of the kube-system namespace as the Kubernetes cluster UID. Please run the command below to get the cluster uid for your cluster:

kubectl get ns kube-system -o=jsonpath='{.metadata.uid}'

License Issuer CA

The license issuer ca can be found here: https://licenses.appscode.com/certificates/ca.crt

Email Address Requirements

You must provide a valid non-disposable email to acquire license. For Enterprise products, you must provide a valid work email to acquire license.

API Reference

License issuing process can be automated in 2 steps:

1. Register Email

This is an one time set up step where you register with a valid email address. Make the api call below with a valid email address. We are going to email you a token for the License server.

curl -d "email=***" -X POST https://license-issuer.appscode.com/register

2. Issue License

Now every time you need a new license, use the token from the previous step to make an api call to our license server. You can use the {email, token} to issue license using curl from command line. In the example below replace *** with an actual token you have received in the email.

# pass request body as application/x-www-form-urlencoded

curl -X POST \
  -d "name=***&email=***&product=kubedb&cluster=***&tos=true&token=***" \
  https://license-issuer.appscode.com/issue-license

# pass request body as application/json

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"***","email":"***","product":"kubedb","cluster":"***","tos":"true","token":"***"}' \
  https://license-issuer.appscode.com/issue-license

# pretty printed request json body
{
  "name": "***",
  "email": "***",
  "product": "kubedb",
  "cluster": "***",
  "tos": "true",
  "token": "***"
}

List of products

• kubedb
• stash
• kubevault
• voyager
• platform
• config-syncer

Installation

These instructions are useful if you are trying to deploy your own license server or update an existing license server.

• Download pre-built binary into a server

curl -fsSL -O https://github.com/bytebuilders/offline-license-server/releases/download/v0.0.66/offline-license-server-linux-amd64
chmod +x offline-license-server-linux-amd64
mv offline-license-server-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/offline-license-server
sudo systemctl restart offline-license-server

• Install systemd service

curl -fsSL -O https://github.com/bytebuilders/offline-license-server/raw/v0.0.66/hack/systemd/offline-license-server.service
chmod +x offline-license-server.service

# 1. Copy Google cloud service account json key to /root/app/gcloud.json
# 2. Edit offline-license-server.service file to
#    - set MG_API_KEY
#    - set APPSCODE_SALES_USERNAME
#    - set APPSCODE_SALES_PASSWORD
#    - add `--ssl`
#    - add --spreadsheet-id=1evwv2ON94R38M-Lkrw8b6dpVSkRYHUWsNOuI7X0_-zA --geo-city-database-file=/root/maxmind/GeoLite2-City.mmdb

mv offline-license-server.service /lib/systemd/system/offline-license-server.service

Now, you should be able to enable the service, start it, then monitor the logs by tailing the systemd journal:

sudo systemctl enable offline-license-server.service
sudo systemctl start offline-license-server
sudo journalctl -f -u offline-license-server

Issue Extended License

offline-license-server issue-full-license \
  --email= \
  --name= \
  --product= \
  --cluster= \
  --expiry-date=YYYY-MM-DD \
  --duration=(P30D | P1M | P1Y)

# --duration flag used https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/rickb777/date/period for parsing duration.

Generate Quotation

offline-license-server quotation generate \
  --contact.email='****' \
  --contact.name='***' \
  --contact.title='***' \
  --contact.company='***' \
  --contact.telephone='***' \
  --template-doc-id=***

Webinar signup

curl -X POST \
  -d "first_name=Tamal&last_name=Saha&phone=+1-1234567890&job_title=CEO&[email protected]&company=AppsCode&cluster_provider=aws&experience_level=tried&marketing_reach=word" \
  http://localhost:4000/_/webinars/2021-3-15/register

Test configure

offline-license-server qa configure \
  --test.name='AppsCode Written Test' \
  --test.config-doc-id=1KB_Efi9jQcJ0_tCRF4fSLc6TR7QxaBKg05cKXAwbC9E \
  --test.qa-template-doc-id=16Ff6Lum3F6IeyAEy3P5Xy7R8CITIZRjdwnsRwBg9rD4 \
  --test.days-to-take-test=3 \
  --test.duration=60m