Install kubectl and other plugins

kubectl

To install kubectl tool follow the official guide https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl-linux/ (opens in a new tab)

Verify you installation by running

kubectl --version

vsphere plugin

You will also need to download bratislava vsphere plugin, here: https://k8s.tanzu.bratislava.sk/ (opens in a new tab). Note, that you have to be connected to magistrate network.

You can download it and install it by running

wget -qO- https://k8s.tanzu.bratislava.sk/wcp/plugin/linux-amd64/vsphere-plugin.zip | tar xzv
sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 kubectl-vsphere /usr/local/bin/kubectl-vsphere

After this you should be able to log into our kubernetes cluster. You can test and login in by following our Login guide.

kubeseal

And lastly you will also need a client side utility: kubeseal (opens in a new tab), which you can download here https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/releases (opens in a new tab) and is used to encrypt sensitive data.

You can also use following lines to download and install

wget https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/releases/download/v0.18.1/kubeseal-0.18.1-linux-$(dpkg --print-architecture).tar.gz -qO- | tar xvz
sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 kubeseal /usr/local/bin/kubeseal

You can read more about creating secrets here.

Install bratiska-cli

If you plan on deploying to our kubernetes cluster, most likely you will need bratiska-cli (opens in a new tab) npm package. But first, you need to install and gain accesses to all of it's prerequisites (opens in a new tab).

Install npm

First we need to install npm (opens in a new tab). You can use following script

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.0/install.sh | bash
cat <<EOT >> ~/.bashrc
export NVM_DIR="${HOME}/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion
EOT
source ~/.bashrc
nvm install node

Install yarn

To Install yarn, you can use your preferred version. Here, we will follow official documentation (opens in a new tab)

npm install --global yarn

Add yarn to your path

echo "export PATH=\"$PATH:${HOME}/.yarn/bin\"" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Install bratiska-cli

After successful installation of yarn (to verify you can run yarn --version) follow
bratiska-cli installation instruction (opens in a new tab). Please, verify one more time that you have met all of the required prerequisites (opens in a new tab).

Now you should have everything needed to deploy (opens in a new tab) your application through bratiska-cli.
To login to our cluster you can follow our Login guide.