5 posts tagged with "Vault"

Let's talk about Kubernetes secrets management for a second. There's a lot of cloud native tech in the secrets space. On the kubefirst open source platform we've found an incredibly powerful secrets management combination to be:
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1. 🔒 Hashicorp Vault: a powerful enterprise secrets manager self hosted in your cluster. It does much more than simple secrets and their self hosted free tier is an exceptionally stable and capable offering.\
2. 🔀 External Secrets Operator: ESO will turn Vault secrets (or cloud secrets or any other secrets) into kubernetes secrets. It's an important platform abstraction so that your apps aren't bound to your secret storage technology.\
3. ♻️ Reloader: A simple utility that automatically orchestrates rolling restarts of your apps when their secret or config values are changed. It's configured with simple annotations and easy to use.\
4. 🐙 Argo CD: Keep your external secret objects in git and hand the controls to the masterful Argo CD gitops engine drive what secrets you need pulled.\
5. 🚀 Kubefirst: We give you all of ☝ preconfigured and working together and then give you the gitops git repository that's powering it all.

Welcome to the third and last part of this series on how to get a GitOps cluster in 20 minutes with Civo. The first article was about preparing for the magic to happen, and creating a production-ready management cluster with multi-cluster support. In the second one, we explored a little of the new cluster you created, and all its tools so you don’t navigate in unknown water. In this blog post, I’ll guide you toward some ways you can customize your new cluster, going from GitOps, to using our beautiful interface.

Welcome to the second part of this series on how to get a GitOps cluster in 20 minutes with Civo. The first article was about preparing for the magic to happen, and creating a production-ready management cluster with multi-cluster support. In this blog post, I’ll guide you toward some of the main pieces of your new Kubernetes platform, so you slowly get to know the features, benefits, and power of kubefirst. Without further ado, let’s jump right in the heart of the subject.

So you need to create a new Kubernetes cluster with all the (useful) bells and whistles like a Continuous Delivery (CD) tool, something to manage the applications’ secrets, and much, much more just to be able to deploy your application. We hear you, it’s a question of days, probably weeks even if you have the proper experience, and did exactly this before. Do not worry, we got you covered with kubefirst: you’ll be able to create a new management cluster with physical and virtual cluster management capabilities in only 20 minutes. Follow this step-by-step tutorial to know how.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use our CLI to deploy a new Kubernetes cluster in minutes, with the most popular cloud native tools running on your machine. We will deploy a new cluster locally, and we will explore some of its most useful features. With our new functional cluster containing already a lot of goodies, you will learn a bit more about the GitOps principles with your new "source of truth repository”, use Terraform with Atlantis to create new repositories within your management cluster, add a new user in HashiCorp Vault using code only, surf the Argo CD sync waves, and master the magic steps to deploy a new application in the cloud.