Installation With Helm

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Control Plane Requirements:

For helm based installation, check for requirements in the cloud provider page:

• AWS
• GCP
• Azure

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Installation steps

1. Create truefoundry namespace

   kubectl create ns truefoundry
   

2. The helm charts to use for the three cloud providers are as follows -

   • AWS - tfy-k8s-aws-eks-inframold

   • GCP - tfy-k8s-gcp-gke-standard-inframold

   • Azure - tfy-k8s-azure-aks-inframold

   • Generic - tfy-k8s-generic-inframold

3. Add the truefoundry helm repo

     helm repo add argocd https://argoproj.github.io/argo-helm
     helm repo add truefoundry https://truefoundry.github.io/infra-charts/
     helm repo update truefoundry argocd
   

4. Install ArgoCD if not already installed

     helm install argocd argo/argo-cd \
      --namespace argocd \
      --create-namespace \
      --version 7.8.26 \
      --set server.extraArgs[0]="--insecure" \
      --set server.extraArgs[1]="--application-namespaces=*" \
      --set controller.extraArgs[0]="--application-namespaces=*" \
      --set applicationSet.enabled=false \
      --set notifications.enabled=false \
      --set dex.enabled=false
   

   Check the ArgoCD docs for more details

5. Create a file called values.yaml and fill in the values with content given by Truefoundry team

    tenantName: "" # Given by Truefoundry team
    controlPlaneURL: "https://domain" # Given by Truefoundry team
    clusterName: ""
   
    truefoundry:
      enabled: true
      devMode:
        enabled: false # Set to true if you want to test the control plane in dev mode
      # Virtual service to create
      virtualservice:
        enabled: false
        hosts: ["domain"]
        gateways: ["istio-system/tfy-wildcard"]
      database:
        host: ""
        name: ""
        username: ""
        password: ""
      tfyApiKey: "" # Given by Truefoundry team
      truefoundryImagePullConfigJSON: "" # Given by truefoundry team
    tfyAgent:
      enabled: false # kept false as this is used only in compute plane
   

6. Apply the helm chart with the values.yaml. Replace the chart_name with the correct one from step 3

   helm install inframold truefoundry/<chart_name> -f values.yaml --namespace truefoundry --create-namespace
   

7. Point the domain to the Load balancer IP of the control plane. Check here on how to add a certificate for TLS.

   kubectl get svc -n istio-system
   

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Test the installation

1. Check if the pods are running in the truefoundry namespace

   kubectl get pods -n truefoundry
   

2. Access the control plane dashboard via https://domain or if via port-forward if dev mode is enabled

   kubectl port-forward svc/truefoundry-truefoundry-frontend-app -n truefoundry 5000:5000