Skip to content

Platform Installation with the Kubefirst CLI

Kubefirst is the name of our command line tool that installs the Kubefirst platform and provides some platform conveniences.

It installs a fully automated platform of open source cloud native tools with a simple init and create command.

Prerequisites

AWS Prerequisites

For your AWS cloud resources to provision we have just a couple prerequisites:

  1. An AWS account with billing enabled.

  2. an established publicly routable hosted zone with dns (docs)

  3. you'll need AdministratorAccess to your aws account (docs)

Step 1 - kubefirst init

Then init your local setup providing values for the following flags:

Flag Description Example
--admin-email an email address that can be used for certificate renewal alerts and the gitlab root account yourname@yourcompany.com
--cloud we only support aws, gcp coming soon aws
--hosted-zone-name name of the platform's hosted zone domain - this will drive the URLs of your tools (gitlab.yourdomain.com, argocd.yourdomain.com, etc) yourdomain.com
--region name of the aws region in which to place your region specific resources us-east-1
--profile name of the aws profile the cli should leverage default
--cluster-name name of the cluster name, used to identify resources on cloud provider your_cluster_name
--s3-suffix unique identifier for s3 buckets you-s3-bucket-name
--git-provider specify \"github\" or \"gitlab\" git provider gitlab
--aws-nodes-spot nodes spot on AWS EKS compute nodes true 
kubefirst init \
--admin-email yourname@yourcompany.com \
--cloud aws \
--hosted-zone-name yourdomain.com \
--region us-east-1 \
--profile default \
--cluster-name your_cluster_name \
--s3-suffix you-s3-bucket-name \
--git-provider gitlab \
--aws-nodes-spot

Using a config file

# config.yaml
config:
  admin-email: yourname@yourcompany.com
  hosted-zone-name: yourdomain.com
  region: us-east-1
  profile: default
  cluster-name: your_cluster_name
  s3-suffix: you-s3-bucket-name
  aws-nodes-spot: true
  cloud: aws  
  git-provider: gitlab  

kubefirst init -c config.yaml

The init process produces a directory of utilities, a state file, and some staged platform content that can now be found at ~/.kubefirst. Here you can find more details about init command.

Step 2 - kubefirst cluster create

Now it's time to create the platform, to do so simply run

kubefirst cluster create

What to do next

Continue your journey: