Teztnets Deployment Guide

This guide covers how to deploy the Teztnets platform on a fresh Google Cloud Project.

Design

• infrastructure as code with Pulumi: everything can be spun up with code only
• two nested repos: one private repo to deploy the cluster, node, and infra charts, one open-soure repo to describe the infrastructure externally. See best practices
• portable:
  • in-cluster nginx rather than Google Application Load Balancer
  • in-cluster management of the teztnets.xyz DNS zone
  • in-cluster cert-manager + letsencrypt rather than Google-provisioned certificates
  • in-cluster monitoring with prometheus operator
  • this allows for an easy move to another cloud provider when requested.

Prerequisites

Install the following:

• Gcloud CLI
• kubectl
• k9s (tool to visualize the cluster)
• pulumi

How to deploy

1. Deploy the Base Infrastructure Stack
2. Deploy the Teztnets Infrastructure Stack
3. Deploy the Teztnets Website