Truefoundry provides an easy way to attach a new compute plane to the control plane. It provides the Terraform code using which you can bring up all the necessary components of the compute plane in your cloud account. The key components of the compute plane are:

  1. Kubernetes Cluster - This is the primary compute on which the applications deployed by the control plane run. This can be EKS, GKE, AKS, Openshift, Oracle Kubernetes engine orany other standard Kubernetes cluster. The control plane should have read access to the cluster configuration. The following addons need to be present on the compute-plane cluster depending on your usecase. You can bring your own addons and have full flexibility on the configuration of the addons.
  1. Docker Registry - This is the registry where the docker images built by the control plane are pushed. This can be ECR, GCR, ACR, Quay, Dockerhub, JFrog, Harbour, or your own docker registry.
    Quay or any other standard docker registry. The control plane should have access to push to this registry.
  2. Blob Storage (Optional) - This will be used to store the ML models and artifacts. This is optional and only needed if you intend to use the model registry feature. The control plane should have access to read and write to this blob storage. Possible integrations are AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, GCP Storage, Minio or any other S3 compatible storage.
  3. Secret Store (Optional) - This will be used to store the secrets for the applications. This is optional and only needed if you intend to use the secret store feature. The control plane should have access to read and write to this secret store. Possible integrations are AWS ParameterStore, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager.
  4. DNS and Certificates - We need to setup a domain name and point it to the load balancer in the compute-plane cluster. This will allow us to provide domain names to the workloads deployed on the cluster. The domain name can be a single domain or a wild card domain. For e.g. if you point a domain like *.example.com (wildcard domain) to the load balancer, the services will be exposed like service1.example.com, service2.example.com etc. However, if you point a domain like tfy.example.com (non-wildcard domain) to the load balancer, the services will be exposed like tfy.example.com/service1, tfy.example.com/service2 etc. Many frontend applications do not work with path based routing (the latter case) and hence we recommend using wildcard domains. We also need to provision certificates to terminate the TLS traffic on the load balancer. For this we can use the AWS Certificate Manager or cert-manager with GCP Cloud DNS or Azure DNS. You can also bring your pre-created certificates.