startup-infrastructure

This is an Ansible playbook that configures a Kubernetes cluster and deploys a full set of self hosted tools for a new company. After you point a wildcard A record to the cluster, you will be able to access the following tools. The goal of this project is to create a one stop shop for self hosting your infrastructure.

Services

1. Kanban board - Using Wekan. This is connected to Mongo DB and will be accessable at http://kanban.root_domain
2. Mysql cluster - Using Presslabs Mysql Operator
3. MongoDB cluster

Deploy

Requirements for deployment machine (for the machine you're executing the deploy from)

1. Python
2. Pip
3. Pipenv
4. Docker
5. SSH access to all nodes you're deploying to.
6. A standard user with sudo access to all nodes

Requirements for infrastructure (the machines you're deploying to)

1. Ubuntu or Debian
2. Internet access

Steps

1. Copy hosts.example to hosts
   • Put ip addresses under the sections
   • Masters are nodes used for managing a kubernetes cluster. It is recommended to has 3 or 5 masters.
   • Workers are nodes used for running containers. You can have as many as necessary.
2. Copy group_vars/all.example to group_vars/all
   • This is where a lot of configuration comes in. Please see our documentation.
3. Run bash supporting-scripts/deploy.sh

Lab environment

You can easily run a lab environment with Vagrant.

Requirements

1. Install Virtualbox
2. Install Vagrant
3. Run vagrant up
4. Run vagrant ssh client -c 'bash /vagrant/tests/files/run-test-deploy.sh'
5. Now navigate to any of the services at http://servicename.192.168.254.3.xip.io (for example: http://ceph.192.168.254.3.xip.io)

Development

This project is tested with bash and Vagrant.

Requirements

1. Install Virtualbox
2. Install Vagrant
3. Run bash tests/vagrant-tests.sh