Deploying an Environment

In this scenario we are managing the [delivery] cluster

• The developers and operators introduce change via source control
• The initial creation of an environment is manual, as a design decision, its a single step process
• Keel is responsible for watching for docker image updates and doing rolling updates in kubernetes
• Cert Manager takes care of letsencrypt registration and TLS

Overview of the process#

• Open a cloud shell with the credentials for the correct cluster
• Get the environment passphrase
• Create the environment
• Check out console to see the workloads turn up

Get the repository and environment passphrases#

There is a store of credentials that you should know about, if not ask support@practiv.com

You need the

• The enviroment passphrase forge-[delivery]

Open a cloud shell#

Go to the cloud console for the [delivery] Cluster

Use the connect button to open a cloud shell with the correct cluster credentials configured

Create the environment#

Once in the shell the process is simple

• Exec into the environment image
• run the create command
• Provide the credentials you sourced earlier

The script does several things

• create the forge-[delivery] namespace
• create the secrets passphrase
• executes the system image and run an upgrade, this will:
  • create secrets
  • create deployments, ingresses, services etc
  • create ingress control

Run

kubectl --namespace forge exec -it forge-[delivery]-0 sh
create

Check out console to see the workloads turn up#

The environment image will have created a number of Kubernetes resources, watch in the console to see them turn up in the forge-[delivery] namespace