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Creating SKS Cluster

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SKS (Scalable Kubernetes Service) is the Exoscale-managed cluster. To deploy an SKS cluster, we can use one of the following tools:

Whatever tool we use, it creates the following resources:

a Security Group and some associated rules
an SKS cluster
a Nodepool

We will go through the details of each approach, so you can select the one you prefer. But first, you need to create an account and get free credits to follow this workshop.

Exoscale - Starter

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Exoscale 101

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Exoscale account

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Creating an account 🔗

First go to the Exoscale Portal

Next, click the Registration button and enter your email address and password.

Validating your account 🔗

To protect against fraud, Exoscale must validate your account. You can do so by entering a credit card number or adding a small amount of money (e.g., 5€) to your account (you can use PayPal for that purpose).

Practice

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Sample Certification

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Deploying the VotingApp

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The VotingApp can be deployed using Helm. It has many configuration options, the default values of which are defined in the following values.yaml file.

# Microservices tags
vote-ui:
 tag: v1.0.33
vote:
 tag: v1.0.16
worker:
 tag: v1.0.17
result:
 tag: v1.0.21
result-ui:
 tag: v1.0.24
seed:
 tag: v1.0.1
# Ingress configuration
ingress:
 enabled: false
 tls:
 enabled: false
 certManager:
 clusterIssuer: letsencrypt
 hosts:
 vote: vote.votingapp.cc
 result: result.votingapp.cc
# Postgres configuration
postgres:
 credentials:
 username: postgres
 password: postgres
 externalSecrets:
 enabled: false
 username:
 key: votingapp/data/pg/username
 field: username
 password:
 key: votingapp/data/pg/password
 field: password
 connection:
 url: ""
 externalSecrets:
 enabled: false
 key: votingapp/data/pg/url
 field: url
 persistence:
 enabled: false
 storageClass: ""
 size: 10Gi
# Redis configuration
redis:
 url: ""
 externalSecrets:
 enabled: false
 key: votingapp/data/redis/url
 field: url
# Using NATS instead of worker + databases mode
nats:
 enabled: false
# Recurrent seeding of votes
seeding:
 enabled: false
 schedule: "0 * * * *"
 numberOfVotes: 5
# Dynamic configuration
items:
 labels:
 a: "cats"
 b: "dogs"
 images:
 enabled: false
 a: https://sos-ch-gva-2.exo.io/votingapp/items/a.png
 b: https://sos-ch-gva-2.exo.io/votingapp/items/b.png

We’ll explore some of those parameters in the next part, but for now, you’ll deploy the VotingApp using the default values as follows:

Exoscale

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Products

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Why Exoscale DBaaS?

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Practice On Exoscale

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CSRD & Exoscale

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Why Exoscale SKS?

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