Terraform is how we manage our k8s. As an Infrastructure-as-Code solution, it allows us to create a reproducible deployment using just a few configuration files and commands (in theory). These configurations are managed in the Kubernetes Configs repository.

The first step to deploying is to configure your working environment. You'll need to ssh into sandbox and follow the steps in console to configure your standard-user Kubernetes.

Once this is done, you can run the following commands in sandbox.

  kubectl config set-context tardis-admin --cluster=tardis --user=tardis-oidc --namespace=tardis-admin
  kubectl config use-context tardis-admin

Following this, you'll need to clone the repository by running

  git clone https://git.tardisproject.uk/tardis/k8s
  cd k8s

You can now run the following commands to setup terraform.

  terraform init

And run the following commands to deploy your changes each time

  terraform plan # shows you the changes
  terraform apply # applies the changes to production

While much of this is handled in terraform, for debugging purposes, you may need to use kubectl.