pritunl-k8s-tf-do VS pipeline

I have a full example here of a working GHA pipeline that deploys terraform infrastructure. This deploys atlantis, which can then be used to deploy Pritunl VPN. Works almost perfectly except for the fact that helm yaml encoded sensitive values are revealed on terraform destroy, so I simply don't have anything sensitive encoded in yaml.

Hey now, I've already got a homelab that launches a k8s cluster and installs Pritunl VPN for coffee shop wifi. I do at least understand that tools need a valid use case before being applied, although admittedly installing it on k8s vs just using Nomad or something is more RDD than not for this one.

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Already done, but good call on learning how to create conditionals. I will look into it!

Playing around with grafana/loki/prometheus all via Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Atlantis in a public repo.

I set up a whole pipeline to install and configure Pritunl VPN on DigitalOcean and it only costs me like $60/month for a 3 node cluster.

https://github.com/autotune/pritunl-k8s-tf-do/blob/master/README.md is the repo. The README should answer any questions about how the pipeline works but the end result is a pritunl webgui listening on port 80 with an ingress route for https, a SERVICE load balancer that listens for VPN connections, and the ability to connect to said service load balancer over Pritunl VPN client. Note this is missing a few things, for one you can only have a replica set of 1 in the deployment. I need to figure out how to add HA with the "enterprise" edition at $70/month extra (still relatively cheap for what you get!). But for personal use it should suffice. Also, I tried using an ingress for the vpn itself but can't get it working, so stuck with SVC load balaner instead, which works fine. Any suggestions here would be appreciated!

All I know for sure is the one cert I was using with letsencrypt kept failing to renew. I just tried it with zerossl since the sign up page cert was finally renewed last night and people have generally been happy with them outside this little incident and seems to actually be working as expected. The helm release I am using is linked to via tf here and the ingress rules are here.

Tekton

Tekton is an open-source framework for creating efficient CI/CD systems. This empowers developers to seamlessly construct, test, and deploy applications across various cloud environments and on-premise setups.

Despite other alternatives like Circle CI, Travis CI, GitLab CI or even self-hosted options using open-source projects like Tekton or Argo Workflow, the reason for choosing GitHub Actions was straightforward: GitHub Actions, in conjunction with the GitHub ecosystem, offers a user-friendly experience and access to a rich software marketplace.

[2]: https://github.com/tektoncd/pipeline/issues/5507#issuecommen...

Drone, or Tekton, Argo Workflows if you’re on k8s

If you want a step up, I would recommend trying out Tekton Pipelines. It’s a very popular ci tool, and it runs on Kubernetes. Yes, this would involve setting up a Kubernetes cluster but please don’t run for the hills! You can setup a Kubernetes cluster and install Tekton on top of it with minimal setup using minikube (see here. This would be a great joint exercise as it will give you a bit of Kubernetes understanding alongside it, and the mechanisms of Tekton are a little trickier than GitHub actions imo. It’s all much the same though.

I've recently found this quote by Kelsey Hightower:

"I'm convinced the majority of people managing infrastructure just want a PaaS. The only requirement: it has to be built by them."

Source: https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/85193508753294540...

In the last few weeks, I've experimented a bit with Flux (https://fluxcd.io/), Tekton (https://tekton.dev/) and Cloud Native Buildpacks (https://buildpacks.io/) on how to provide K8s powered git push deployments without using a dedicated CI/CD server.

My project is still in early alpha stage and just a proof of concept :-) My vision is to expand it into an Open Source PaaS in the future.

Do you think the above quote is true? What does an open source PaaS need to be like in order to be accepted by software developers?

Some other projects have been discontinued in the past (like Flynn or Deis) or were created before the Kubernetes era.

Is it the right direction to provide a Heroku like solution based on K8s or is it better to provide an Open Source Infrastructure as Code library with building blocks to avoid everything from scratch?