prototype-dev-station

Web Application targeting Developers with a WebUI that deploys Dev tools to a kubernetes cluster

Ideas

• Web Ui that users use to deploy tools for development
• using terraform or internal tools to deploy instances of items
• Git Repository, Coder like (container with VS in it for now), File explorer, Webtop

MVP

• Container file
• Helm Chart
• Golang application
• Web UI
• Helm chart updated to use Service Account
• Logic to deploy gitea
• Return a clickable link to the deploy Gitea instance
• Git Repository button
• Logic to deploy Webtop instance
• Return a clickable link to the deployed webtop instance
• Webtop Button
• Persistence volume for home data
• Make sure the user's information stays around

Usage

Running locally

Note: Running locally will limit you to only the index page. Deploying will not function from outside of a cluster in the MVP

Luckily, running locally is rather simple. Just run ./helper.sh run-app and it will build the app if isn't built and run it once it's finished.

Deploying Helm

To deploy this, you will need to run ./helper.sh deploy-helm and it will deploy everything into a namespace called 'dev-station'. Make sure that NS is already present before running that deploy, otherwise it will fail (MVP but won't fail in actual usage).

Docker Container

This doesn't run anything but the script does help build it. Just run ./helper.sh build-docker <name-of-container>:<tag> and ./helper.sh push-docker <name-of-container>:<tag> to push the container. IF you're doing this manually, make sure you update the helm chart values.yaml file to point to the correct location of the docker container.

Building

Locally

To build the app locally, you can just do go build -o build/dev-station or use ./helper.sh build-app.

Remote

Right now their is an action that builds this and containerizes it for us and then pushes to our Solo Laboratories Registry. Just manually run the workflow and it will containerize it and push it.