Big Bang Customer Template for Deploying Big Bang

Prerequisites

To deploy Big Bang, the following items are required:

• Kubernetes cluster ready for Big Bang
• [Optional] Code to setup a production-ready infrastructure on AWS with an RKE2 Kubernetes cluster is provided in the terraform directory.
• A git repo for infrastructure and configuration as code
• Kubectl
• GPG (Mac users need to read this important note)
• SOPS
• Git
• Iron Bank Personal Access Token - Under your User Profile, copy the CLI secret.
• Repo1 Personal Access Token - You will need read_repository permissions.
• Helm

In addition, the following items are recommended to assist with troubleshooting:

• K9S

This links to a set of instructions and sample files for end users to pull into their own local environment to help accelerate their install.

Template Repository

Note: Big Bang being deployed is not required to work on the labs, that are listed later on in the training.