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GitOps Hybrid Runtime - Installation with NGINX Community Ingress Controller

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Pre-installation

ENV Variables to set on local machine

  • GIT_TOKEN - Your git provider PAT that is going to be used for the runtime

  • GIT_REPO - The repo where the runtime information is going to set.

Installation

Install the NGINX Community ingress controller

  • Download the YAML
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/main/deploy/static/provider/aws/nlb-with-tls-termination/deploy.yaml
  • Find and update the following lines in the yaml to represents your VPC IP range and ACM Certificate 
proxy-real-ip-cidr: 192.168.0.0/16 # or what ever your VPC CIDR is
service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-cert: arn:aws:acm:REGION:ACCOUNTID:certificate/CERTIFICATEID
  • Apply the yaml to your cluster
kubectl apply -f deploy.yaml

Update Route 53

Get the External Address (Load Balancer) of the Ingress Controller

kubectl get service -n ingress-nginx ingress-nginx-controller

In Route 53 create an Host for GitOps Runtime

  1. Create a new Record

  2. Record Name to be your subdomain

  3. For Value toggle the Alias

  4. Alias for Network Load Balancer > REGION > Select the external Address from above

  5. Save record

Install the Runtime

Verify that you can reach the Ingress Controller with the host name you created (will return 404)

Run the following to install the runtime

cf runtime install MY-RUNTIME \
--ingress-host https://HOSTNAME \
--ingress-class nginx \
--silent

 

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