You will need to have a laptop (Windows, Linux or Mac), it is preferred for your machine to have at least 8GB of RAM. This isn't strictly required but highly recommended. Working with VMs and Containers is resource intensive, no way to get around it.
This workshop requires that you have the following installed on your machine:
In order to speed up the setup process, we also recommend you to download the VMs & containers required during the workshop.
Kubectl is the CLI controller app for kubernetes. You will use to interact with all the kubernetes cluster. Therefore it is required to be able to perform any task during the workshop.
Kustomize is needed to ease the handling and the customization of multiple manifest files.
Minikube is a simple one-node installation of Kubernetes specifically designed to work on your local machine.
Do the following commands to setup the minikube installation:
minikube start --cpus=4, this will setup the minikube VM
https://argoproj.github.io/argo-cd/cli_installation/
brew install argocd
kubectl create namespace argocd
kubectl apply -n argocd -f manifests/install.yaml
kubectl -n argocd get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d
- Create port-forward tunnel:
kubectl port-forward svc/argocd-server -n argocd 8080:443 - Enter
adminand initial administrator password - Click the
+ New App - Insert your app the name
<APP_NAME>, use the projectdefault - Connect the
https://github.com/nikever/kubernetes-hello-app-delivery.gitrepo to Argo CD - For Destination, set cluster to
https://kubernetes.default.svcand namespace todefault - Click
Create - On Top click
SYNC APP
argocd login `localhost:8080`
argocd app create `<APP_NAME>` --repo https://github.com/nikever/kubernetes-hello-app-delivery.git --path argocd-helm/nginx --dest-server https://kubernetes.default.svc --dest-namespace default --port-forward-namespace argocd
argocd app sync `<APP_NAME>`