Without kloudease – build cluster, platform and deployment yourself

$ terraform apply -target=module.cluster
Error: timeout while waiting for state to become 'ACTIVE'
$ terraform apply -target=module.cluster
$ helm install ingress-nginx ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx
$ helm install cert-manager jetstack/cert-manager
$ helm install monitoring prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack
$ helm create shop && vim shop/templates/deployment.yaml
$ flux bootstrap git --url=ssh://git@git.example.com/shop/fleet.git
Error: ssh: handshake failed: knownhosts: key mismatch
$ flux create helmrelease shop --chart=./charts/shop
# TODO: RBAC, policies, secrets, upgrades, on-call …

With the kloudease API – cluster and GitOps as objects

apiVersion: compute.k7e.tech/v1alpha1
kind: KubernetesCluster
metadata:
  name: shop-prod
spec:
  projectRef: shop
  provider: stackit
  kubernetesVersion: "1.33"
  nodePools:
    - name: default
      machineType: standard-4
      autoscaling: { min: 3, max: 6 }
---
apiVersion: services.k7e.tech/v1alpha1
kind: GitOpsRepository
metadata:
  name: shop
spec:
  clusterRef: shop-prod
  engine: flux
  url: https://git.example.com/shop/deploy.git
  path: deploy/prod

kubectl apply -f shop-prod.yaml: kubernetescluster.compute.k7e.tech/shop-prod created, gitopsrepository.services.k7e.tech/shop created, $ git push, Flux: shop-prod reconciled – shop is live

With the kloudease MCP – just say what you need

Create a production cluster for our shop – three nodes, on STACKIT.

• Cluster shop-prod is running on STACKIT
• Monitoring, logging and backup active

Great. Now deploy our shop app from the shop/deploy repo to the cluster.

• Flux connected to shop/deploy
• shop is live on shop-prod
• Updates and operations handled by AOE