brew install favish/favish/argo
argo components install && argo components start
Install will acquire all required binaries locally, start will make sure your local services are up and running.
- Docker - Allows you to run a single process like nginx in an isolated environment with very little overhead.
- Minikube - You can't run docker containers on OSX natively yet so we have to virtualize an environment with access to a modern linux kernel with this tool.
- Kubernetes & Kubectl - A system for managing docker containers which are grouped into pods, orchestrated via deployments and exposed to the outside world via services. Here is a great explanation video
- Helm - Managing deployments by hand can be tedious so we use helm to provide localized variables and dependencies among our infrastructure.
- VirtualBox - Virtualization platform that minikube launches into.
- Google-cloud-sdk - Set of tools for manipulating resources in the Google Cloud Platform.
argo project deploy
Creates all kubernetes services required to run the project in the cwd. Optionally add --debug to see all commands run,
and -y to skip the prompt.
Deployments should generally be left to CI to handle, but CI is only building the project dependencies via composer and then running argo on the resulting artifact. You can actually use the favish/build-deps image to do this without installing anything locally.
If you need to bypass CI or are testing changes, you can run argo project deploy -e=$DEPLOY_TARGET
where deploy target is either dev or prod. If no CIRCLE_SHA1 variable is present in your shell when you run this command,
argo will use the latest tag for application code, you will most likely want to set this to match the git commit sha1 hash
that is currently on the infrastructure you're operating against (generally the last commit CI ran against).