Liferay on DigitalOcean's Kubernetes

Kubernetes

For a project I’m doing on Liferay for a customer I decided to deploy Liferay on a managed Kubernetes cluster at DigitalOcean

Why Kubernetes?

• I need to learn all about, as we’re also using it at my biggest client. (They have a private cloud though, for this smaller project I need a public cloud)
• For local development I was already using (Liferay’s official) docker images
• Kubernetes does seem to become the de facto standard for orchestrating docker
• Since Docker Desktop has OOTB support for Kubernetes it became very easy to setup and test the environment locally first

Why DigitalOcean?

Getting started

• create Kubernetes cluster on DigitalOcean
• download config file
• check connectivity

k8s-liferay$ kubectl get namespaces
NAME              STATUS   AGE
default           Active   9d
kube-node-lease   Active   9d
kube-public       Active   9d
kube-system       Active   9d

Helm

Installed helm with homebrew and added the official Helm stable charts repo.

k8s-liferay$ brew install helm
k8s-liferay$ helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/
k8s-liferay$ helm repo update

You can read more about it on the Helm quickstart page

k8s-liferay$ helm create liferay