Guides

These guides are about what you can do with Kubernetes once you have a cluster: deploying apps, scaling them, keeping them healthy. They are deliberately general. The concepts apply to any conformant Kubernetes cluster, whether it is a shoot from your own Gardener landscape, a cluster I run for you, or something else entirely.

If you want to know how paasbox itself works, the CLI, the components, the clusters I run, billing, adopted servers, see the documentation instead.

Start here

• Deploy your first app: from a container image to a running, reachable Deployment and Service.
• Expose your app with Ingress & TLS: serve it from the public internet over HTTPS with ingress-nginx, cert-manager, Let’s Encrypt and DNS.
• Run Postgres with CloudNativePG: a real database with the CNPG operator, high availability with automated failover, and backups to S3-compatible storage.
• Deploy a Django SaaS: the full production shape end to end with UpCheck: web, workers, scheduler, Postgres, Redis, migrations, HTTPS.
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions: deploy from CI with a short-lived kubeconfig fetched per run instead of a long-lived secret.
• Scale & autoscale workloads: run more replicas, spread them across nodes, and let the cluster scale them for you.

What you need

• A Kubernetes cluster and its kubeconfig.
• kubectl installed locally.
• A container image to deploy, your own or a public one to follow along.

More guides are planned. If you want a topic covered, tell me.