orchestrator

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Setup

In order to be able to run this application you need to have the following programs installed on your machine:

• Vagrant.
• VirtualBox.

To interact with the application, it is recommended to install the following programs, or any equivalent ones:

• Postman, or any other tool to programmatically test API endpoints.
• kubectl to be able to interact with the Kubernetes cluster from your machine. Check this cheat sheet to get an idea of some useful commands.
• [optional] minikube to deploy the Kubernetes cluster on your machine instead of the VM cluster.

To run and manage the Kubernetes cluster on the VM cluster:

• Create a .env file in the root of the project folder as the example provided. You can simply cp .env.example .env.
• Use the provided ./orchestrator.sh script to create the K3S cluster and start the application.

To run kubectl on your machine to interact with the Kubernetes cluster, you need to export KUBECONFIG=./k3s/k3s.yaml after you created the VM (e.g. after running ./orchestrator.sh create.