Creation of Local Environments

Tip

Alternatively if you have taskfile installed - task create.

Create the clusters:

Kind

kind create cluster --config create/$ENV_NAME.yaml

Bootstrap the clusters with FluxCD whilst being mindful of the owner (group path) and repository name:

Gitlab

export GITLAB_TOKEN=<your personal access token with api, write_repo, read_registry scoped roles>
flux bootstrap gitlab --token-auth --owner danielloader --repository fluxcd-demo --path ./clusters/$ENV_NAME --context kind-$ENV_NAME

Add the Container Registry secret to the flux-system namespace so that the platform components can be pulled:

OCIRepository Platform Artifacts (Production/Staging)GitRepository Platform Branch (Deployment/Sandboxes)

export GITLAB_USERNAME=<gitlab login email>
kubectl create secret docker-registry platform-repository --docker-server=registry.gitlab.com --docker-username="$GITLAB_USERNAME" --docker-password="$GITLAB_TOKEN" --namespace flux-system --context kind-$ENV_NAME

kubectl create secret generic platform-repository -n flux-system --from-literal=username=git --from-literal=password="$GITLAB_TOKEN" --context kind-development

Now your clusters will be following the state of this repository, as dictated by the clusters/ directory, and you can check using kubectl to get the status of the kustomization objects:

OCIRepository platform type clusterGitRepository platform type cluster

> kubectl get kustomizations -n flux-system --context kind-production
NAME                       AGE   READY   STATUS
flux-system                45m   True    Applied revision: main@sha1:32f862f2e10fbaf1f10ff915a6b5b3954ca17037
platform-configs           45m   True    Applied revision: 0.0.6@sha256:a02c5784eafe0f93f92378c806ef94bc5dc7b0e653b65039f1c17178e06ab32a
platform-service-configs   45m   True    Applied revision: 0.0.6@sha256:a02c5784eafe0f93f92378c806ef94bc5dc7b0e653b65039f1c17178e06ab32a
platform-services          45m   True    Applied revision: 0.0.6@sha256:a02c5784eafe0f93f92378c806ef94bc5dc7b0e653b65039f1c17178e06ab32a

> kubectl get kustomizations -n flux-system --context kind-development
NAME                       AGE   READY   STATUS
flux-system                47m   True    Applied revision: main@sha1:32f862f2e10fbaf1f10ff915a6b5b3954ca17037
platform-configs           47m   True    Applied revision: main@sha1:32f862f2e10fbaf1f10ff915a6b5b3954ca17037
platform-service-configs   47m   True    Applied revision: main@sha1:32f862f2e10fbaf1f10ff915a6b5b3954ca17037
platform-services          47m   True    Applied revision: main@sha1:32f862f2e10fbaf1f10ff915a6b5b3954ca17037