GitHub

GitHub Prerequisites

• A GitHub organisation.
• A new GitHub account for your kbot automation user.
• A GitHub personal access token for your kbot account.

Prerequisites

Local Prerequisites

If you are on macOS, and have Homebrew installed, you can run:

brew install konstructio/taps/kubefirst

To upgrade an existing kubefirst CLI to the latest version run:

brew update
brew upgrade kubefirst

There are other ways to install kubefirst for different operating systems, architectures, and containerized environments. See our installation README for details.

DigitalOcean Prerequisites

For kubefirst to be able to provision your DigitalOcean cloud resources:

• A DigitalOcean account in which you are an account owner.
• A publicly routable DNS.
• A DigitalOcean API personal access token.
• A DigitalOcean Spaces access key & its secret.

Create your new kubefirst cluster

Adjust the following command with your GitHub and DigitalOcean key in addition to the appropriate values for your new platform.

export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
export DO_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
export DO_SPACES_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
export DO_SPACES_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

kubefirst beta digitalocean create \
  --alerts-email [email protected] \
  --github-org your-github-org \
  --domain-name your-domain.io \
  --cluster-name kubefirst

tip

By default kubefirst use the cloud providers to manage DNS. You also have the option to use Cloudflare.

To do so, add the dnsProvider flag with the value cloudflare to your create command --dns-provider cloudflare.

You also need to set the CF_API_TOKEN environment variable with a Cloudflare token (export CF_API_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxx) having the Zone.Zone, and Zone.DNS edit permission. More information on Cloudflare token creation in their documentation.

Example of terminal output following cluster creation

Root credentials

To obtain your 3 initial passwords, run

kubefirst beta vultr root-credentials

Connecting to Kubernetes

To connect to your new Kubernetes cluster, run

export KUBECONFIG=~/.k1/kubeconfig

To view all cluster pods, run

kubectl get pods -A

GitLab

GitLab

• Create or use an existing GitLab account.
• Create a GitLab group developer permissions.
• A GitLab personal access token for your kbot account.

GitLab SaaS offering has limitations that require us to use groups contrary to GitHub which can be use without an organization.

Prerequisites

Local Prerequisites

If you are on macOS, and have Homebrew installed, you can run:

brew install konstructio/taps/kubefirst

To upgrade an existing kubefirst CLI to the latest version run:

brew update
brew upgrade kubefirst

There are other ways to install kubefirst for different operating systems, architectures, and containerized environments. See our installation README for details.

DigitalOcean Prerequisites

For kubefirst to be able to provision your DigitalOcean cloud resources:

• A DigitalOcean account in which you are an account owner.
• A publicly routable DNS.
• A DigitalOcean API personal access token.
• A DigitalOcean Spaces access key & its secret.

Create your new kubefirst cluster

Adjust the following command with your GitHub and DigitalOcean tokens in addition to the appropriate values for your new platform.

export GITLAB_TOKEN=glpat-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
export DO_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
export DO_SPACES_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
export DO_SPACES_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

kubefirst beta digitalocean create \
  --alerts-email [email protected] \
  --git-provider gitlab \
  --gitlab-group your-fully-qualified-gitlab-group/or-sub-group  \
  --domain-name your-domain.io \
  --cluster-name kubefirst

tip

By default kubefirst use the cloud providers to manage DNS. You also have the option to use Cloudflare.

To do so, add the dnsProvider flag with the value cloudflare to your create command --dns-provider cloudflare.

You also need to set the CF_API_TOKEN environment variable with a Cloudflare token (export CF_API_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxx) having the Zone.Zone, and Zone.DNS edit permission. More information on Cloudflare token creation in their documentation.

Example of terminal output following cluster creation

Root credentials

To obtain your 3 initial passwords, run

kubefirst beta vultr root-credentials

Connecting to Kubernetes

To connect to your new Kubernetes cluster, run

export KUBECONFIG=~/.k1/kubeconfig

To view all cluster pods, run

kubectl get pods -A