eien

eien is a command line tool that manages and deploys apps to any Kubernetes cluster and abstracts all kubernetes concepts from you.

📦 Focus of eien is to require minimum dependencies inside the Kubernetes cluster and use standard Kubernetes features to manage and deploy the app. eien tries to follow all best practices for deploying apps in Kubernetes.

⚙️ eien has simple commands like you are used to from heroku or dokku CLI.

🏗 eien uses Krane gem to deploy Kubernetes resources. This allows you to:

• monitor the deploy status and see if the roll out was successfull
• see debug information if case of failure
• predeploys certain types of resources to make sure they are available for resources that might consume them (e.g. Deployment)

For more information visit https://github.com/Shopify/krane.

eien requires Ruby 2.7 or newer.

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

$ bundle add eien

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

$ gem install eien

️⭐️ Recommendation: Lock down the version of eien gem by adding the gem to Gemfile to ensure consistency. If you don't use bundler just create Gemfile only for eien gem version tracking.

1. Initialize Kubernetes cluster for eien

   $ eien init <kubernetes context>
   

This will deploy eien Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions to store app , processes and other definitions. Those are used to generate Kubernetes resources when depoying the apps.

2. Create eien app and select it to be used ever time when deploying from current diretory

   $ eien apps create myapp
   $ eien apps select myapp
   

3. Create first process (like Procfile process type)

   $ eien ps create web --image ealen/echo-server:latest --replicas 3 --ports http:80
   

4. Create domain

   $ eien domain create myapp.x.x.x.x.nip.io
   

5. Create route to route HTTP request from domain to process port

   $ eien route create root --domains myapp.x.x.x.x.nip.io --path / --process web --port http
   

6. Preview what Kubernetes resources would be deployed

   $ eien deploy generate
   

7. Finally, deploy the app

   $ eien deploy apply
   

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/alhafoudh/eien. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the Eien project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.