If you’re looking to establish a GitOps flow for your Terraform Modules and Helm charts, Cluster.dev might be exactly what you need. Understanding GitOps All configuration and infrastructure code are stored within Git. Modifications to the configuration in Git initiate a reconciliation process, applying the changes. With cluster.dev, you’re always maintaining your…

In previous part we have formalized required workflow. In this part we would start to build our UI for Cluster.dev with ChatGPT. Visualize workflow using ChatGPT and Diagrams as Code But before we start I’d like to share some hack that I’m using during any new project creation. My goal is to create some visualization on required process…

05 MAY 2022 The code and the text prepared by Oleksii Kurinnyi, a monitoring engineer at SHALB. Cluster.dev is a tool designed to template infrastructure patterns (stacks). It operates with a number of prepared stack templates to launch and provision Kubernetes clusters in the preferred cloud. In this article we…

Open source community bounts with a variety of products. Today we are going to introduce Cluster.dev — an infrastructure managing software that joins the ranks of publicly accessible tools. In this article we shall address the questions of why users need Cluster.dev, …

At SHALB we build infrastructures and platforms. An infrastructure is a set of components that are used to launch workloads.The components could be networks, DNS servers, container orchestrators, databases, functions, policies, etc. Under a platform we mean some reference infrastructure patterns. We design them for SRE and Product teams so that they could launch infrastructures from those examples.

Pulumi and Crossplane are modern alternatives to Terraform.These are great tools and we admire alternative views on infrastructure management. What makes Cluster.dev different is its purpose and limitations. Tools like Pulumi, Crossplane, and Terraform are aimed to manage clouds — creating new instances or clusters, cloud resources like databases, and others. While Cluster.dev is designed to manage the whole infrastructure, including those tools as units. That means you can…

For modern cloud native environments, infrastructure templating is critical as it helps simplify the processes of infrastructure development and maintenance, in particular: Makes infrastructure development easier by defining functional borders. Enables to test the interoperability of components even if they contain different technologies. Provides for sharing infrastructure patterns with other…

Terraform is a great and popular tool for creating infrastructures. Despite the fact that it was founded more than five years ago, Terraform supports many providers and resources, which is impressive. Cluster.dev loves Terraform (and even supports export to the plain Terraform code). Still, Terraform lacks a robust relation system, fast plans, automatic reconciliation, and configuration templates.

Cluster.dev is an open-source tool designed to manage cloud native infrastructures with simple declarative manifests — stack templates. It allows you to describe a whole infrastructure and deploy it with a single tool. Stack templates could be based on Terraform modules, Kubernetes manifests, Shell scripts, Helm charts and ArgoCD/Flux applications…