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CERN VRE Technical Documentation

The following is the technical documentation of the CERN Virtual Research Environment, including CERN-specific matters, which are marked accordingly.

TL;TR

In order to create or interact with this cluster you'll need: kubectl, terraform, helm and kubeseal installed locally.

Further, you'll need the OpenStack RC configuration and the kubeconfig (once the cluster has been created).

Repository Structure

The repo is designed to be a Monorepo, containing all relevant files to this project:

• .github: Workflows
• adm additonal configuration files
• iac: Infrastructure as Code
  • scripts: Scripts used for the infrastructure
  • secrets: sealed secrets
    • tmp_local_secrets: not tracked dir for local secrets to work with the scripts
  • tf: Terraform files
    • cluster: Cluster main files
    • modules: Terraform modules used in the cluster