These notes document the firebreak project to learn some Kubernetes (k8s)

1. Produce a ‘thing’ to show

2. Learn stuff about K8s

3. Only use code to build the ‘thing’

4. Build a thing which can be deployed to

5. Document what we do and lessons learnt

6. Have fun!

Members are:

1. David McDonald

2. David Pye

3. Michael (Miki) Mokrysz

4. Philip Potter

5. Stephen Ford

6. Frederic Francois

Requirements are:

1. AWS programmatic credentials with sufficient privileges to create VPC, ec2, loadBalancer, s3, etc

2. kops to deploy the k8s cluster on AWS infrastructure.

   Example to install kops on mac os using brew:

   brew install kops
   

Build a K8s cluster by following the steps here

Build & Deploy a hello world app to the ‘thing’

Deploy a CI/CD tool to the k8s cluster by using the instructions here

[1] https://medium.com/containermind/how-to-create-a-kubernetes-cluster-on-aws-in-few-minutes-89dda10354f4

[2] https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-journeys/users/application-developer/foundational/#section-1

[3] https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault