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Deployment

Educates is a Kubernetes-based platform designed to provide interactive workshop environments. This section provides a comprehensive overview of the Educates architecture, its core concepts, and how the system works.

Deployment Components​

The Educates Training Platform has some requirements for it's configuration to properly work on a Kubernetes cluster on a production environment.

These requirements are:

  • A Kubernetes cluster. Educates has been tested on GKE, EKS and AKS, Minishift and Kind.
  • A domain name so that training portals will be accessible from the internet. In our cloud deployment we use ExternalDNS to create the DNS records, but you can use any other DNS provider. On local cloud deployments you can rely on external services like nip.io or xip.io or use Educates Local Resolver.
  • A wildcard certificate for the domain name as we want access to the training portals to be secured. You can run Educates Training Platform over http but we don't recommend it. For local deployments, Educates CLI helps you manage your own certificates. For cloud deployments, you can use cert-manager to issue certificates from Let's Encrypt.
  • A policy engine. Educates can enforce policies on the cluster and on every workshop session. It can use Kubernetes native policies or external policy engines like Kyverno, which is our recommended policy engine and the default one.

Educates Training Platform does provide an installation mechanism via it's CLI that will provide oppinionated deployments of the required components on local clusters, GKE and EKS. It does installation in an imperative way, but you can also install Educates declaratively using kapp-controller.