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Kubernetes Quick install

These commands deploy a fully runnable instance of Cells on Kubernetes. Use it to quickly spin off a production-ready environment having high-availability and horizontal scalability at the ready from the get-go

  1. Add the Pydio Cells Helm Chart repository
    $ helm repo add cells https://download.pydio.com/pub/charts/helm

  2. Run the install command
    $ helm install cells cells/cells --namespace cells --create-namespace

  3. The output will tell you how to access your app once the deployment is ready. It can take a few minutes.

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The default helm chart will deploy a Cells instance w/ dependencies but still being capable of running on the smallest of environment such as minikube.

The main parameters required to achieve a production-ready deployment are described below.

values.yaml



# NOTE : Cells Enterprise users can comment out the lines following the # [ED] comment

# Define what image version of Cells you want to use to have more control over your update
image:
  # [ED]
  # repository: pydio/cells-enterprise
  tag: latest

# Achieve high availability by starting a minimum number of replicas of the Cells stateless Pod
# NOTE: each dependency of Cells has their own high availability strategy
# Achieve horizontal scalability by setting up an autoscaling strategy 
autoscaling:
  enabled: true
  minReplicas: 3
  maxReplicas: 5
  targetCPUUtilizationPercentage: 80
  targetMemoryUtilizationPercentage: 80

resources:
  limits:
    cpu: "500m"
    memory: "2G"

# Achieve public-facing deployment by adding Ingress w/ Nginx as a load balancer
# Uses lets-encrypt as a certficate authority
ingress:
  enabled: true
  clusterissuer:
    server: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
    email: myexampleaddress@gmail.com
  hostname: cluster.pydiocells.com
  tls: true
  selfSigned: true

service:
  type: ClusterIP
  # [ED]
  # customconfigs: {
  #  "defaults/license/data": "MYLICENSE",
  # }

Just run the following command in order to install and activate all the parameters defined above :

  1. $ helm update --install cells cells/cells --namespace cells -f values.yaml

With sufficient resource, this will transform your basic non-secured system to a letsencrypt-secured load balancer in front of a highly available and horizontally scalable Cells deployment.

Not sufficient yet ?

Read on the rest of the pages in this section to get a deeper understanding of how things work in a Pydio Cells cluster and find the configurations you need.