Infrastructure Setup
Choose your infra type and provision the necessary infra before you actually deploy the services
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Choose your infra type and provision the necessary infra before you actually deploy the services
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iFIX is a microservices-based distributed cloud-native application. Each of these context-specific microservices is dockerized and deployed on Kubernetes infrastructure.
It is essential to understand some of the key concepts, benefits and best practices of the Kubernetes platform before we understand the deployment of the iFIX.
Know the basics of Kubernetes: ​
Know the commands
Know Kubernetes manifests: ​
Know how to manage environment values and secrets of any service deployed in Kubernetes ​
Know how to port forward to a pod running inside k8s cluster and work locally ​
Know sops to secure your keys/creds: ​
Choose the target infra type and follow the instructions to set up a Kubernetes cluster before moving on to the deployment.
Before we begin the deployment, it is important to understand the deployment architecture from the source code to the production-ready stage. Deploying and managing Kubernetes have emerged as a streamlined way to deploy containers in the cloud infrastructure. When running Kubernetes at scale, it can be challenging to manage, operate, and scale its infrastructure to maximize cluster utilization. There are too many parameters the development team needs to manage and configure. This includes selecting the best instance type and size, determining when to scale up or down, and making sure all of the containers are scheduled and running on the best instances — even before starting to think about cost resource optimization.
The simplest way to get started with the deployment process is to manage the deployment configuration as code. Each service deployment configuration is defined as Helm charts and deployed into the Kubernetes cluster. We can collocate the deployment-as-code as source code, leveraging all the benefits of source control including change tracking and branching and then packaging it. The source code repo below contains the deployment-as-code details for iFIX.
Use the command below to clean up the setup cluster. This deletes the entire cluster and other cloud resources that were provisioned for the iFIX Infra Setup.
All done, the infra on local, cloud, and deployment of iFIX into the Kubernetes cluster is completed successfully.