Mediawiki canasta on kubernetes (via helm?)

This is an afford to make a good and real gitOps kubernetes deployment of canasta mediawiki.

The goal is to get a running helm version, but at first we try to deploy with kustomize and port it later to helm.

Status

We're in the middle of porting the system from the non funtional https://github.com/CanastaWiki/Canasta-Kubernetes to a running gitOps deployment with kustomize or helm.

Started with the above repo and a rollout of canasta with doccker-compose:

At the moment the deployment will run with:

Install for now

• Install the excellent MariaDB operator:

  helm repo add mariadb-operator https://mariadb-operator.github.io/mariadb-operator
  helm install mariadb-operator-crds mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator-crds  -n mariadb-operator --create-namespace
  helm install mariadb-operator  mariadb-operator/mariadb-operator -n mariadb-operator --create-namespace
  

• Edit the configs in:

  • kustomize/components/dev/config/*
  • kustomize/components/dev/settings/*
  • kustomize/components/dev/environment
  • kustomize/components/dev/ingress.yaml

• When you add files in ..../config/ or ..../settings/ run the script kustomize/dev/mkconfig.sh. This makes the correct configs for kustomize!

• After this you can make a simple: kubectl apply -k kustomize/dev to install and run!

• You can implement staging with the directories test, qm and prod!

At the moment all containers are starting and you can access it via the ingress. The DB connection reports an error, this should be fixed by someone who knows canasta better.

ToDo

• make it run: fix db error
• check for individual config parameters
• make deployment more universal
• create helm chart from this config
• documentation for deploy and config (started in ./doc/)
• reenable http caching?
• invest in horizontal scaling