Install Simplyblock Control Plane on Kubernetes

Install CLI

pip install sbctl --upgrade

After installing the CLI, navigate to the Helm chart directory within the installed package:

cd /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/simplyblock_core/scripts/charts/

Then build the Helm dependencies and deploy the SimplyBlock control plane:

helm dependency build ./
helm upgrade --install sbcli --namespace simplyblock --create-namespace ./

Before running the helm install, you can edit the values.yaml file to match your specific configuration — for example, to set cluster parameters, storage options, or node selectors according to your environment.

Service	Direction	Source / Target Network	Port	Protocol(s)
ICMP	ingress	control	-	ICMP
Cluster API	ingress	storage, control, admin	80	TCP
FoundationDB	ingress	storage, control	4500	TCP
Cluster Control	egress	storage, control	8080-8890	TCP
spdk-http-proxy	egress	storage, control	5000	TCP
spdk-firewall-proxy	egress	storage, control	5001	TCP

Find and exec into the admin control pod (replace the pod name if different):

kubectl -n simplyblock exec -it simplyblock-admin-control-<uuid> -- bash

Install Control Plane

sbctl cluster create --ifname=<IF_NAME> --ha-type=ha --mode=kubernetes

Additional parameters for the cluster create command can be found at Cluster Deployment Options.