eea-fleet

This application is designed for deploying applications to Rancher2. It provides fleet-specific configurations for managing and deploying Helm charts in a Rancher environment.

Overview

The eea-fleet app handles the deployment and management of applications within Rancher2 clusters. It provides streamlined configuration management for fleet deployments.

Generating New Apps

To generate a new application, use the utility application located in the utils/ directory. This tool provides an interactive interface for creating new app configurations that are compatible with the fleet deployment system.

Creating a New Configuration

1. Navigate to the utils directory:

   cd utils/

2. Install dependencies (if not already done):

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the configuration generator:

   python main.py

4. Follow the interactive prompts:

   • Select "Generate Fleet Configuration" from the main menu
   • Choose between "Repository Mode" (select from available EEA Helm charts) or "Cluster Mode" (extract from existing deployments)
   • Configure your application settings:
     • Application Name: Unique identifier for your app
     • Target Namespace: Kubernetes namespace for deployment
     • Chart Selection: Choose from available EEA Helm charts
     • Target Cluster: Destination cluster name
   • Customize Helm values as needed

5. Generated files: The tool will create organized configuration files:

   • apps/<cluster>/<namespace>-<chart>/fleet.yaml - Fleet deployment configuration
   • int/<cluster>/<namespace>-<chart>/<namespace>-<chart>-configmap.yaml - ConfigMap with Helm values

The generated configurations are automatically organized by cluster and follow Rancher Fleet best practices for multi-cluster deployments.

Note: ConfigMap files in the int/ directory contain environment-specific configurations and should be excluded from version control to maintain security and flexibility across different deployment environments.