manikann/gke-terraform-hal-spinnaker

Install spinnaker in GKE using terraform and halyard

Install spinnaker in GKE using terraform and hal

Prerequisite

• Runs only on Linux or Mac
• Following tools needs to be installed in local machine and available via PATH
  • gcloud SDK
  • kubectl (gcloud components install kubectl)
  • terraform
  • halyard

Variables

• project: The ID of the GCP project
• zone: Compute engine zone where GKE cluster needs to be created
• gcs_location: Cloud storage bucket location for storing spinnaker data

  By default Nearline storage class is configured. Ensure correct location is configured based on the configured zone

Installation steps

1. Following API needs to be enabled for the project

   gcloud services enable serviceusage.googleapis.com
   gcloud services enable iam.googleapis.com
   

2. Create service account for terraform

   PROJECT=$(gcloud info --format='value(config.project)')
   SA_EMAIL=terraform@${PROJECT}.iam.gserviceaccount.com
   
   gcloud iam service-accounts create terraform --display-name "terraform" 
   gcloud iam service-accounts keys create account.json --iam-account $SA_EMAIL
   

   Above command will download the key and store it in account.json file

3. Grant owner role to terraform service account

   gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding $PROJECT --member serviceAccount:${SA_EMAIL} --role roles/owner
   

4. Setup google authentication. For more info refer this guide

   export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="[PATH]" (for e.g. $PWD/account.json)
   

5. Execute below commands. This will take some time to complete (5 to 8 mins)

   terraform init
   terraform plan -out terraform.plan
   terraform apply terraform.plan 
   

6. After the command completes, run the following command to set up port forwarding to the Spinnaker UI

   hal deploy connect
   

7. Access spinnaker UI at http://localhost:9000/