CKAN Cloud Operator

CKAN Cloud Operator manages, provisions and configures CKAN Cloud instances and related infrastructure.

Components

• Terraform configurations for first setup of a Kubernets cluster and peripheral services for multiple cloud providers:
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Minikube for local development
• ckan-cloud-operator CLI will manage the cluster and any other services necessary for day-to-day operations
• Management server, comes preinstalled with ckan-cloud-operator, required tools (terraform, kubectl, helm, awscli etc.) and a Jenkins Server.

Quick Start

In order to start using ckan-cloud-operator, you need to

1. Create a CKAN Cloud Operator working environment.

   You can choose to:

   • Use our pre-built Docker image
   • Run the AMI (on AWS)
   • Run the TBD (on GCP)
   • Run the TBD (on Azure)

   Note: While technically possible, we recommend not to run ckan-cloud-operator directly on you machine to avoid version incompatibilities between the various tools involved in the process. You should use one of our pre-built images or our Docker image instead.

2. Create a Kubernetes cluster and provision it.

   • Instructions for AWS:

     • Create a cluster using terraform
     • Initialize the cluster using ckan-cloud-operator

   • Instructions for GCP:

     • Create a cluster using terraform
     • Initialize the cluster using ckan-cloud-operator

   • Instructions for Azure:

     • Create a cluster using terraform
     • Initialize the cluster using ckan-cloud-operator

   • Instructions for Minikube:

     • Initialize the cluster using ckan-cloud-operator

3. Then you can create a CKAN Instance on the cluster:

   • Create a values file
   • Create the instance on the cluster

4. (Optional) Set-up Jenkins and the Provisioning UI

Reference

• Command Line Interface parameters
• CKAN Values file reference