Kubedirector Lab Environment

This document describes how to use vagrant to automate setting up a development environment for Kubedirector.

The vagrant environment contains:

• Minikube 1.18.3
• Operator SDK 1.5.2
• Thiea IDE

Pre-requisites

The following should be installed on your development environment

• Virtualbox
• Vagrant

Usage

Start environment

Open a terminal, then enter the following:

git clone https://github.com/hpe-container-platform-community/kubedirector-lab
cd kubedirector-lab
git clone https://github.com/bluek8s/kubedirector
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

# this step can take quiet a long time
vagrant up

# if you don't want git configured inside vagrant 
vagrant ssh -c ./run_lab.sh

# if you do want git configured inside vagrant 
./run_ide.sh

Open a browser and navigate to: http://localhost:3000 - this will load the Theia IDE.

Open a terminal in Theia, from here you can:

• Change to the source code folder for kubedirector (/vagrant/src/github.com/bluek8s/kubedirector)
• Build and Deploy Kubedirector
  • make
  • make deploy
  • make redeploy # if make deploy reports an error
• Use kubectl to interact with minikube

Stop environment

• Open the terminal on your developement machine where you cloned kubedirector
• Navigate to the vagrant folder
• Issue vagrant suspend