k8s-lab

Kubernetes Lab Environment

This repo builds the basis of the lab then k8s-lab-apps is used in a gitops fashion for application management using argocd. Key tools are:

• ArgoCD - GitOps, App Of Apps setup for component install
• Sealed Secrets - Used for initial bootstrapping of the cluster.
• Istio - My service mesh of choice
• cloudflare argo - Used to 'publish' argocd even from behind NAT

Getting started

# Create the Cluster
k3d cluster create --config k3d/k3d-lab.yaml

# Add the External Secrets Namespace and secret
kubectl apply -f bootstrap/manifests/external-secrets-namespace.yaml
kubectl apply -f ~/keys/external-secrets-gcp-secret.yaml -n external-secrets

# Install External Secrets
helmfile -f external-secrets/helmfile.yaml apply

# Deploy ArgoCD
kubectl kustomize bootstrap/kustomize/ | kubectl apply -f -

Cleanup

Once complete just delete the cluster.

k3d cluster delete lab

Next Steps

Visit ArgoCD and login with github credentials.

Next Steps - CLI

Login via the CLI (will redirect using and login via the browser) argocd login --sso argocd.distrail.io