gopaddle

Vinothini Raju

How-to articles of creating and using resources in gopaddle

User Guide

gopaddle is a light weight development platform that helps to build, deploy and manage Cloud Native Applications across Cloud environments.

Introducing gopaddle

gopaddle Deck is a platform to build docker containers and schedule them for continuous integration.

Getting Started with Deck

gopaddle Propeller helps make production grade Kubernetes deployments. It offers the perspective of application based deployments ...

Getting Started with Propeller

Getting Started

Source Control Management (SCM) Authenticators generate authorization tokens to authenticate OAuth based Single-Sign-On requests ...

Source Control Management (SCM) Authenticators

Registering a Source Control Account from a SCM system like GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket in gopaddle

Registering a Source Control Account

Steps to create or registry AWS ECR, Google GCR or Azure ACR Registries in gopaddle portal

Adding a Docker Registry

Build Configuration

Cloud account needs to be registered in order to use Docker Registry or to provision a managed Kubernetes cluster in the cloud platform ...

Registering a Cloud Account

Registering an AWS Account provides authenticates gopaddle to provision and manage subnets, VPC, AWS EKS clusters, push or pull Docker ...

Registering an AWS Cloud Account

Register a pre-existing managed Kubernetes cluster like Amazon EKS, Google GKE or Azure AKS or an on-premise Kubernetes cluster ...

Registering an external Cluster with gopaddle

Registering Amazon EKS as an external cluster

Registering EKS as an external cluster

gopaddle integrates with AWS API to provision and centrally manage multiple clusters across multiple Cloud Accounts

Creating Amazon (EKS) Cluster

Create and manage 3 different types of nodepools in EKS - managed, custom or storidge

Creating an EKS Node Pool

gopaddle offers a pre-defined Cloud Formation Template to create Roles to associate with the AWS EKS master and Node pool.

Adding an AWS IAM Role (EKS Master / Node Pool)

Create Azure Application before registering a Cloud Authenticator

Create Azure Application

Register an Azure Cloud Authenticator to authenticate Single-Sign-On (SSO) requests from gopaddle

Register Azure Cloud Authenticator

Use the Cloud Authenticator to perform Single-Sign-On (SSO) to register an Azure Account

Registering an Azure Account

Scale Azure Node Pools based on conditions

Azure Autoscaling Rules

Steps to enable public IP access to the work loads deployed on Azure AKS Node pools

Enable Public IP Node Access for Azure deployments

Registering a Google Account authenticates gopaddle to provision and manage Google GKE clusters, push or pull Docker Images ..

Registering a Google Account

Domain names can be assigned to Applications at the time of deployment. gopaddle supports subdomain and wildcard domain configurations ..

Adding a Domain & SSL

Storage Provisioners help provision volumes dynamically when an application is deployed or scaled.

Registering an NFS Storage Provisioner

Volumes from a Cloud platform can be statically attached to an Application

Registering an existing Persistent Volume

Infrastructure Configuration

A Configuration resource contains a group of configuration files or a group of Key/Value literals ...

Creating Configurations

Adding and Managing Configuration Files

A Container resource in gopaddle contains the build time and the run time attributes of a Docker Container.

What are Containers ?

In this article, you will be introduced to the steps for creating different types of containers.

Creating a Container

Once a Docker Project or Source Code based Container is added to gopaddle, build scripts can be added to the container ...

Adding Build Scripts

Building a Container

The option to enable Continuous Integration is available for  Source Code and Docker Project based Containers ...

Enabling Continuous Integration

Container

Services aka micro-services are a logical collection of containers.

What are Services ?

Containers can be grouped together as logical collections called Services ...

Creating a Service

Share volumes across services within an Application

Creating Shared Volumes across Services

One or more containers can be added to a Service along with a set of policies that define the way the containers have to deployed, scaled ..

Adding Containers to a Service

Service

Deployment templates are a collection of Services that are cloud or environment agnostic. Templates are version controlled to support ...

What are Deployment Templates ?

Compose multiple services to create a deployment template

Creating a Deployment Template

Launching a Deployment Template

Deployment Template

An Allocation Policy specifies the minimum and maximum CPU and Memory capacity to be allocated for a Container.

Creating and Using Allocation Policy

Container Policies

Deployment Policy defines how a Service can be deployed and updated. Different update strategies are applied for stateful and stateless ...

Creating and Using Deployment Policy

Scaling strategies differ for a stateful vs a stateless service. Currently, it is not possible to scale a Stateful Service automatically.

Creating and Using Scaling Policy

A Network policy defines the inbound and outbound access to/from a Service...

Creating and Using Network Policy

Service Policies

Volume Claim policy specifies the storage requirements for a Service. These requirements are infrastructure or Cloud agnostic.

Creating and Using Volume Claim Policy

A Volume Provision Policy specifies the attributes that are necessary to create a new PV at the time of deploying a Stateful service ...

Creating and Using Volume Provision Policy

Volume Policies

gopaddle supports sending notifications across different channels based on alert policies set.

Creating Notifications (PagerDuty, SNS, Webhook)

Alert Policies specify the rules to send send notifications to one of the registered Notification Channel when an event occurs ...

Creating an Alert Policy

Notification & Alerts

Download and install gpctl. Login to gopaddle using user credentials.

Installing and configuring gopaddle command-line utility

Generate Dockerfile, build the docker image, create Kubernetes artifacts and deploy to Kubernetes - all in a single gpctl command

Initializing a microservice from scratch

Onboard an existing Kubernetes project to gopaddle

Import an existing Kubernetes project to gopaddle

How to build and deploy container workloads to Huawei Cloud Container Engine using gopaddle