Getting started

Let's launch a local cluster using VKPR in less than 5 minutes.
Note: You need Docker installed for this to work.

Get VKPR

The VKPR CLI tool will do its best to hide its internals (including Ritchie).

# Install the VKPR
curl -fsSL https://get.vkpr.net/ | bash
# Create alias
alias vkpr="rit vkpr"

Info

Optionally you can use VKPR internal tools by changing PATH:

export PATH=$PATH:~/.vkpr/bin

Usage

Try yourself to use VKPR following the next steps:

Create a cluster

After installing VKPR, you may be creating the Kubernetes Cluster in your environment for testing as a production environment.

To do that, you can run the command:

vkpr infra up

Deploy a sample app

To test some application using VKPR, we will use whoami as an example.

For this, we will implement an ingress controller and the whoami itself:

vkpr nginx install --default
vkpr whoami install --default

Now you can test this sample application with a simple curl command:

curl whoami.localhost:8000
# OR 
curl -H "Host: whoami.localhost" localhost:8000

Warn

Use the second form if whoami.localhost does not resolve to 127.0.0.1.

Discard cluster

After all tests, if you want to destroy the created cluster, you may discard his with a single command:

vkpr infra down

A brief explanation

Each of VKPR's CLI commands is called a formula (implemented using Ritchie).

• vkpr infra up formula starts a local kubernetes cluster using k3d.
• vkpr nginx install formula deploys an ingress controller nginx, in this case exposed to localhost in ports 8000 (http) and 8001 (https).
• vkpr whoami install formula deploys a sample application with a valid ingress configuration.