Tools
Technology Strategy
- Leverage Ubuntu experience
- Initial build is manual, dev and subsequent releases are declarative
- Increasing abstraction for infrastructure and application pipelines
Substrate Technology Selection
- Kubernetes: Microk8s snap
- Ceph: MicroCeph snap
- Prometheus: snap
Administration technologies selected
Essential
Installation on Mac
- Recommend
brew - Depends on x-code, so install with:
xcode-select --install - Install brew:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)" - Terminal browser: midnight commander (mc) installation:
brew install mc - Kubernetes admin: kubectl installation:
brew install kubernetes-cli - Kubernetes Terminal User Interface k9s installation:
brew install k9s - Kubernetes GUI User Interface octant installation:
brew install octant - Kubernetes Application release management helm installation:
brew install helm
Application and advanced
- Virtual Machine provisioning: Vagrant
- VM Configuration and microk8s cluster build: ansible
- Distributed Networking admin: calicoctl
- Database dashboard: adminer
- json processor: jq
- Cloudsmith CLI (helm repository management)
- Wireguard
Platform technologies
- Monitoring: Prometheus
- Backup: Longhorn (to be evaluated)
- SSO: Dex (to be evaluated)
References
Tool installations
- https://www.redswitches.com/blog/install-homebrew-on-mac/
- https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kubernetes-cli
Vagrant
- https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search
- https://blog.verbat.com/ansible-vs-vagrant-how-they-compare-and-which-one-should-you-use/
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/cli/box
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/multi-machine
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/networking/private_network
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/networking/public_network
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/networking
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/providers/virtualbox/boxes
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/providers/virtualbox/common-issues
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/providers/virtualbox/configuration
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/providers
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/provisioning/file
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/vagrantfile/machine_settings#config-vm-base_mac
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/vagrantfile/machine_settings
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/vagrantfile/ssh_settings
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/vagrantfile/tips
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/intro
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/tutorials/getting-started/getting-started-index
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/tutorials/getting-started/getting-started-up
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/vagrant-multiple-vms-with-unique-ip-address-on-public-network-using-dhcp/36374
- https://luppeng.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/vagrant-up-with-the-lxc-provider/
- https://www.vagrantup.com/
- https://github.com/Fred78290/vagrant-multipass
Ansible
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9_ja/modules/snap_module.html
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections_guide/collections_using_playbooks.html
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/copy_module.html
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/expect_module.html
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/index.html#plugins-in-ansible-builtin
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/known_hosts_module.html
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/pause_module.html
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/template_module.html#ansible-collections-ansible-builtin-template-module
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/snap_module.html
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/getting_started/basic_concepts.html
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#control-node-requirements
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/inventory_guide/connection_details.html
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/inventory_guide/intro_inventory.html
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_intro.html
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/tips_tricks/ansible_tips_tricks.html
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/tips_tricks/sample_setup.html#sample-directory-layout
- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/vault_guide/vault.html
- https://opensource.com/article/19/4/ansible-procedures
- https://opensource.com/article/19/9/ansible-documentation-kids-laptops
- https://opensource.com/resources/what-ansible
- https://opensource.com/article/19/3/developing-ansible-modules
- https://spacelift.io/blog/ansible-shell-module
- https://www.ansible.com/
- https://www.ansible.com/community
- https://www.ansible.com/overview/how-ansible-works
- https://www.educba.com/ansible-vs-puppet-vs-chef/
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ansible-k8s-raspberry-pi-jens-fuchs/
- https://www.theurbanpenguin.com/an-ansible-microk8s-install-of-kubernetes/
- https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator
- https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/INSTALL.md
- https://github.com/ansible/awx
Cloud DevOps
- https://backstage.io/docs/overview/what-is-backstage
- https://artifacthub.io/
- https://betterprogramming.pub/observability-with-microk8s-14c1f0ff5183
- https://bitnami.com/enterprise
- https://charmhub.io/topics/canonical-observability-stack
- https://byte.builders/blog/post/deploy-opensearch-with-opensearch-dashboards-in-gke/
- https://computingforgeeks.com/install-prometheus-server-on-debian-ubuntu-linux/?expand_article=1
- https://devopscube.com/setup-prometheus-monitoring-on-kubernetes/
- https://docs.fluentd.org/container-deployment/kubernetes
- https://docs.fluentd.org/v/0.12/articles/kubernetes-fluentd
- https://docs.fluentd.org/v/0.12/articles/monitoring-prometheus
- https://jenkins-x.io/
- https://jenkins-x.io/v3/about/how-it-works/
- https://jenkins-x.io/v3/about/overview/
- https://jenkins-x.io/v3/about/what/
- https://jenkins-x.io/v3/admin/platforms/on-premises/
- https://jenkins-x.io/v3/admin/platforms/on-premises/vault/
- https://jenkins-x.io/v3/admin/setup/secrets/vault/
- https://opensearch.org/blog/exploring-opensearch-2-10/
- https://opensearch.org/blog/setup-multinode-cluster-kubernetes/
- https://opensearch.org/docs/1.2/security-plugin/configuration/security-admin/
- https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/
- https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/search-plugins/neural-search/
- https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/tuning-your-cluster/availability-and-recovery/remote-store/index/
- https://opensearch.org/downloads.html
- https://medium.com/@mbianchidev/2023-devops-is-terrible-ec88162c86d7
- https://medium.com/01001101/enhance-your-docker-image-build-pipeline-with-kaniko-567afb6cf97c
- https://medium.com/geekculture/create-docker-images-without-docker-daemon-kaniko-847a688155a6
- https://medium.com/kubernetes-tutorials/cluster-level-logging-in-kubernetes-with-fluentd-e59aa2b6093a
- https://prometheus.io/
- https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exporters/
- https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/
- https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/
- https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/getting_started/
- https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2019/01/30/microk8s-part-2-how-to-monitor-and-manage-kubernetes.aspx
- https://github.com/opensearch-project/helm-charts/blob/main/charts/opensearch/README.md
- https://github.com/opensearch-project/helm-charts/blob/main/charts/opensearch/values.yaml
- https://itnext.io/how-to-expose-your-kubernetes-dashboard-with-cert-manager-422ab1e3bf30
- https://k9scli.io/
- https://linuxhint.com/install_prometheus_ubuntu/
- https://snapcraft.io/prometheus
- https://vegastack.com/tutorials/how-to-install-prometheus-on-ubuntu-22-04/
- https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/prometheus-adapter
- https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter
- https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus
- https://codilime.com/blog/day-0-day-1-day-2-the-software-lifecycle-in-the-cloud-age/
- https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/cloud-get-started/cloud-sign-up
- https://docs.codacy.com/chart/infrastructure/microk8s-quickstart/
- https://katalon.com/resources-center/blog/continuous-delivery-vs-continuous-deployment
- https://octant.dev/
- https://octant.dev/octant-reveals-objects-running-in-kubernetes-clusters/
- https://signoz.io/docs/install/kubernetes/others/
- https://www.datadoghq.com/dg/logs/kubernetes/
- https://www.cloudforecast.io/blog/node-exporter-and-kubernetes/
- https://www.middlewareinventory.com/blog/kubernetes-sidecar-logging-with-fluentd-to-efk/
- https://tekton.dev/
- https://www.deepnetwork.com/blog/2020/01/27/ELK-stack-filebeat-k8s-deployment.html
- https://www.linuxtechi.com/how-to-install-kvm-on-ubuntu-22-04/
- https://www.logicmonitor.com/blog/jenkins-vs-jenkins-x
- https://www.mirantis.com/zeroops/what-is-zeroops/