Skip to content

Kubernetes

You will need a kubernetes environment to deploy and use UnderStack. Good options for a small kubernetes development environment are k3s and kind.

Kubernetes Tools

UnderStack also uses common kubernetes tools: Helm, Kustomize, and Kubeseal.

Helm

Helm is a package manager for kubernetes and UnderStack uses a number of upstream Helm charts.

Installation

curl https://baltocdn.com/helm/signing.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/helm.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https --yes
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/helm.gpg] https://baltocdn.com/helm/stable/debian/ all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/helm-stable-debian.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install helm

Kustomize

Kustomize helps make customizations in kubernetes easier.

Installation

curl -s "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/master/hack/install_kustomize.sh"  | bash
sudo mv kustomize /usr/bin

Kubeseal

Sealed Secrets and the kubeseal cli tool make it possible to store sescrets in a public repository.

Installation

wget https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/releases/download/v0.26.0/kubeseal-0.26.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xzf kubeseal-0.26.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv kubeseal /usr/bin