Cartographer Delivery

Warning This package has been archived. Application delivery is now supported by the cartographer-supply-chains in combination with a GitOps controller, such as Carvel or Flux.

A Carvel package providing Cartographer delivery chains to deploy workloads to a Kubernetes cluster based on GitOps or RegistryOps.

🚀  Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes 1.25+

• Carvel kctrl CLI.

• Carvel kapp-controller deployed in your Kubernetes cluster. You can install it with Carvel kapp (recommended choice) or kubectl.

  kapp deploy -a kapp-controller -y \
    -f https://github.com/carvel-dev/kapp-controller/releases/latest/download/release.yml

Dependencies

Cartographer Delivery requires the Cartographer Blueprints package. You can install it from the Kadras package repository.

Installation

Add the Kadras package repository to your Kubernetes cluster:

kctrl package repository add -r kadras-packages \
  --url ghcr.io/kadras-io/kadras-packages \
  -n kadras-packages --create-namespace

Installation without package repository

The recommended way of installing the Cartographer Delivery package is via the Kadras package repository. If you prefer not using the repository, you can add the package definition directly using kapp or kubectl.

kubectl create namespace kadras-packages
kapp deploy -a cartographer-delivery-package -n kadras-packages -y \
  -f https://github.com/kadras-io/cartographer-delivery/releases/latest/download/metadata.yml \
  -f https://github.com/kadras-io/cartographer-delivery/releases/latest/download/package.yml

Install the Cartographer Delivery package:

kctrl package install -i cartographer-delivery \
  -p cartographer-delivery.packages.kadras.io \
  -v ${VERSION} \
  -n kadras-packages

Note You can find the ${VERSION} value by retrieving the list of package versions available in the Kadras package repository installed on your cluster.

kctrl package available list -p cartographer-delivery.packages.kadras.io -n kadras-packages

Verify the installed packages and their status:

kctrl package installed list -n kadras-packages

📙  Documentation

Documentation, tutorials and examples for this package are available in the docs folder. For documentation specific to Cartographer, check out cartographer.sh.

Delivery: Basic

The basic delivery chain provides a simple Cartographer path consisting of the following stages:

• Monitor configuration source code repository with FluxCD;
• Deploy the workload to Kubernetes with Carvel kapp.

flowchart LR;
    A(Monitor Configuration)-->B(Deploy Workload);

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🎯  Configuration

The Cartographer Delivery package can be customized via a values.yml file.

delivery_chain: basic

Reference the values.yml file from the kctrl command when installing or upgrading the package.

kctrl package install -i cartographer-delivery \
  -p cartographer-delivery.packages.kadras.io \
  -v ${VERSION} \
  -n kadras-packages \
  --values-file values.yml

Values

The Cartographer Delivery package has the following configurable properties.

Configurable properties

Config	Default	Description
delivery_chain	basic	The type of delivery chain to use when deploying workloads. Options: basic.
service_account	default	The default ServiceAccount used by the delivery chain.
git_credentials_secret	""	The Secret containing authentication credentials for Git repositories.

🛡️  Security

The security process for reporting vulnerabilities is described in SECURITY.md.

🖊️  License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE for more information.

🙏  Acknowledgments

This package is inspired by:

• the examples in the Cartographer project;
• the original cartographer-catalog package used in Tanzu Community Edition before its retirement;
• the set of delivery chains included in an example of Tanzu Application Platform OSS stack.
• the set of delivery chains included in the playground for Tanzu Application Platform.