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

Development k3d cluster automation with AWS k3d Dev Script

k3d Script (This script does not does not install Flux or deploy Big Bang. You must handle those deployments after your k3d dev cluster is ready.)

These links contain sets of instructions and sample files for end users to pull into their own local environment to help accelerate their install.

Quick Start Guide (Contains a step-by-step guide and a video walkthrough to quickstart your deployment)

Template Repository (Contains a template that you can replicate in your own Git repo to get started with Big Bang configuration. If you are new to Big Bang it is recommended you start with the Big Bang Quickstart before attempting customization)

Note

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

If you are not confident in deploying Big Bang at this time, please come back to this part of the training later on, after completing the rest of the sections.