Graham McIntire
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Previously Valkey ran as a sidecar container in the main deployment, causing it to restart every time the web app deployed. This resulted in connection errors and cache loss during deployments. Changes: - Created valkey-statefulset.yaml with StatefulSet resource (1 replica) - Created valkey-service.yaml with headless service - Removed Valkey sidecar container from deployment.yaml - Updated REDIS_HOST from 127.0.0.1 to valkey-0.valkey.towerops.svc.cluster.local - Added new resources to kustomization.yaml Benefits: - Valkey persists across web app deployments - No connection errors during rolling updates - Cache data preserved - Independent scaling and resource management |
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| certificate.yaml | ||
| debug-redis.sh | ||
| deployment.yaml | ||
| Dockerfile | ||
| ingressroute.yaml | ||
| kustomization.yaml | ||
| namespace.yaml | ||
| poddisruptionbudget.yaml | ||
| README.md | ||
| service-headless.yaml | ||
| service.yaml | ||
| valkey-service.yaml | ||
| valkey-statefulset.yaml | ||
Kubernetes Deployment
Secrets Management
Secrets are managed directly in the cluster and must be created before deploying the application.
Required secrets in the towerops namespace:
gitlab-registry- Docker registry credentials for pulling imagestowerops-secrets- Application secrets (RELEASE_COOKIE, SECRET_KEY_BASE)towerops-db- Database connection credentialstowerops-aws- AWS credentials (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_REGION)
For local development, the project root .envrc is used by direnv.
Deployment Timestamp
The application footer displays the deployment timestamp to track when the current version was deployed. This is automatically set by GitLab CI during deployment:
# GitLab CI sets this during deploy
- kubectl set env deployment/towerops DEPLOY_TIMESTAMP=$(date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ") -n towerops
All pods in the deployment share the same timestamp (when the deployment was initiated), regardless of when individual pods were created. This is displayed in the footer as "Last deployed X ago · YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS UTC".
For manual deployments without GitLab CI, set the timestamp:
kubectl set env deployment/towerops DEPLOY_TIMESTAMP=$(date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ") -n towerops
Deploying
Apply all resources using kustomize:
kubectl apply -k k8s/
Or individually:
kubectl apply -f k8s/namespace.yaml
kubectl apply -f k8s/secret.yaml
kubectl apply -f k8s/deployment.yaml
kubectl apply -f k8s/service.yaml
kubectl apply -f k8s/service-headless.yaml
kubectl apply -f k8s/certificate.yaml
kubectl apply -f k8s/ingressroute.yaml