prasanthmj / karina

Kubernetes Platform Toolkit

	Minimal	Monitoring	Minimal Antrea	Platform	NoSQL	CI/CD	Security	Harbor	Postgres	Elastic	Managed
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karina is a toolkit for building and operating Kubernetes based, multi-cluster platforms. It includes the following high level functions

To see how it compares to other tools in the ecosystem see comparison

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Design Principles

• Batteries Included - Most components require just a version to enable and are pre-configured with ingress, LDAP and TLS (managed by cert-manager) due to a shared infrastructure model that includes information such as top-level wild card domain, LDAP/S3 connection details, etc.
• Escape Hatches for when the defaults don't work for you, easily use kustomize patches to configure resource limits, labels, annotations and anything else on any object managed by karina.
• Integrated, but independent - karina works best when used to provision a Kubernetes cluster and then deploy and test a production runtime, but each function can also be used independently, i.e you can run karina e2e tests in an environment that wasn't provisioned or deployed by karina.

Features

• Provision Kubernetes clusters on vSphere (with NSX-T or Calico), Kind and Cluster API (Coming Soon)
• Deploy a production runtime for monitoring, logging, security, multi-tenancy, backups, storage, container registry and DBaaS
• De-Centralized multi-cluster authentication using a root CA for administrator-level offline authentication, and Dex for online user authentication.
• CLI Addons/Wrappers to perform day 2 and incident mitigation tasks such as rolling updates, restarts, backup, restore, failover, replication, logging configuration, system dumps etc.

Getting Started

To get started provisioning see the quickstart guides for Kind and vSphere

Production Runtime

• Docker Registry (Harbor)

• Authentication (Dex, Oauth Proxy)

• Authorization & Policy Enforcement (Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper)

• Certificate Management (cert-manager)

• Secret Management (Sealed Secrets, Vault)
• CI/CD (Tekton, ArgoCD, Flux, kpack)
• Database as a Service (postgres-operator, rabbitmq-operator, redis-operator)

• Logging (ElasticSearch, Filebeat, Packetbeat, Auditbeat, Kibana)

• Monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, Karma, Canary Checker)

• Multi-Tenancy (Namespace Configurator Cluster Quotas, Kiosk)

Contributing

Please follow the guideline below when contributing to this project

• Conventional commits