Forecastle

Introduction

Forecastle is a control panel which dynamically discovers and provides a launchpad to access applications deployed on Kubernetes

Chart

We use public stakater chart to deploy forecastle in our cluster. Here is the repository for stakater public charts. We use version 1.0.20 in our cluster. We use umbrella charts to deploy forecastle in our cluster. Currently we are using this repository for forecastle deployment

Image

Currently we are using this stakater/forecastle:v1.0.22 public image for forecastle

Cherry Pickable

Yes

Single Sign-on

Yes. We use proxyinjector for achieving single sign on. Please refer to its documentation here

Installation

Installation Steps

Most of the times forecastle will be deployed from pipeline of this repository. It will have updated configurations and dependencies for forecastle. But we can also install it manually (not recommended). To install forecastle manually, clone this repo and you can run the make targets of repo containing latest used implementation of forecastle. This will install all dependencies and forecastle as well.

1. Clone https://github.com/stakater/stakaterkubehelmGlobal repository
2. Update the hardcoded values mentioned here in global/values/forecastle
3. Run this command. make install CHART_NAME=global

Dependencies

forecastle is not dependant on any other tool

Chart Info

name: forecastle
version: 1.0.20
repository: https://stakater.github.io/stakater-charts 
alias: forecastle

Hard-coded-values

This document contains the hard coded values for forecastle, and its dependencies.

forecastle:
  deployment:
    annotations:
        authproxy.stakater.com/image-name: quay.io/gambol99/keycloak-proxy
        authproxy.stakater.com/image-tag: v2.1.1
        authproxy.stakater.com/enabled: "true"
        authproxy.stakater.com/upstream-url: "http://127.0.0.1:3000"
        authproxy.stakater.com/source-service-name: forecastle
        authproxy.stakater.com/redirection-url: "https://forecastle.global.stakater.com"
        authproxy.stakater.com/listen: "0.0.0.0:80"
  service:
    annotations:
        config.xposer.stakater.com/IngressURLPath: "/"
        config.xposer.stakater.com/Domain: "stakater.com"
        config.xposer.stakater.com/IngressNameTemplate: "{{.Service}}-{{.Namespace}}"
        config.xposer.stakater.com/IngressURLTemplate: "{{.Service}}.{{.Namespace}}.{{.Domain}}"
        xposer.stakater.com/annotations: |-
          kubernetes.io/ingress.class: external-ingress
          ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
          ingress.kubernetes.io/force-ssl-redirect: true