Deploy Magda to Microsoft Azure

1> Install the Azure CLI

If you havenā€™t, follow the link below to install the Azure CLI.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli

2> In Azure Portal, create a Resource Group with a name you preferred. e.g. magda-deploy-res-group.

A Resource Group is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution.

3> Go the resource group created, click ā€œAddā€ button to add ā€œKubernetes Serviceā€. If it is not already on the screen, you can find it from search input by key in ā€œKubernetes Serviceā€. See screenshot below:

Azure Create k8s service

4> Open the ā€œKubernetes Serviceā€ resource that is just created (see screenshot below).

And click the ā€œConnectā€ button to get the commands required to connect to your cluster and setup the k8s config for your local kubectl tool.

Connect to Your AKS cluster

5> Install kubernetes-replicator

Itā€™s only required by the OpenFaas part of Magda which can be turned off via global.openfaas.enabled.

# add helm chart repo
helm repo add mittwald https://helm.mittwald.de

# update helm chart repo
helm repo update

# create namespace `kubernetes-replicator`
kubectl create namespace kubernetes-replicator

# Install kubernetes-replicator via helm
helm upgrade --namespace kubernetes-replicator --install kubernetes-replicator mittwald/kubernetes-replicator

6> Create a namespace ā€œmagdaā€ for your Magda installation

kubectl create namespace magda

7> Create required secrets

You need pwgen command line tool to follow the instruction below. If itā€™s not availble on nyour system, you need to install one.

export JWT_SECRET="$(pwgen 32 1)"
export SESSION_SECRET="$(pwgen 32 1)"
export DB_PASSWORD="$(pwgen 32 1)"
export MINIO_ACCESS_KEY="$(pwgen 32 1)"
export MINIO_SECRET_KEY="$(pwgen 32 1)"

kubectl create secret generic auth-secrets --namespace magda --from-literal=jwt-secret=$JWT_SECRET --from-literal=session-secret=$SESSION_SECRET

kubectl --namespace magda annotate --overwrite secret auth-secrets replicator.v1.mittwald.de/replication-allowed=true replicator.v1.mittwald.de/replication-allowed-namespaces=magda-openfaas-fn

kubectl create secret generic db-passwords --namespace magda \
--from-literal=combined-db=$DB_PASSWORD \
--from-literal=authorization-db=$DB_PASSWORD \
--from-literal=content-db=$DB_PASSWORD \
--from-literal=session-db=$DB_PASSWORD  \
--from-literal=registry-db=$DB_PASSWORD \
--from-literal=combined-db-client=$DB_PASSWORD \
--from-literal=authorization-db-client=$DB_PASSWORD \
--from-literal=content-db-client=$DB_PASSWORD \
--from-literal=session-db-client=$DB_PASSWORD \
--from-literal=registry-db-client=$DB_PASSWORD \
--from-literal=tenant-db=$DB_PASSWORD \
--from-literal=tenant-db-client=$DB_PASSWORD

kubectl create secret generic storage-secrets --namespace magda --from-literal=accesskey=$MINIO_ACCESS_KEY --from-literal=secretkey=$MINIO_SECRET_KEY

# Optional; Only for sending email notification of user inquires
kubectl create secret generic smtp-secret --namespace magda --from-literal=username=$SMTP_USERNAME --from-literal=password=$SMTP_PASSWORD

8> Add Magda Helm Repo

helm repo add magda-io https://charts.magda.io
helm repo update

9> Install Magda via Helm

helm upgrade --namespace magda --install --timeout 9999s --set magda-core.gateway.service.type=LoadBalancer magda magda-io/magda

By default, Helm will install the latest production version of Magda. You can use --version to specify the exact chart version to use. e.g.:

helm upgrade --namespace magda --install --version 0.0.60-rc.1 --timeout 9999s --set magda-core.gateway.service.type=LoadBalancer magda magda-io/magda

The value --set magda-core.gateway.service.type=LoadBalancer will expose Magda via load balancer.

You can run:

echo $(kubectl get svc --namespace magda gateway --template "")

to find out the load balancer external IP. And access Magda via http://[External IP].

To expose Magda via Ingress and Setup TLS / SSL, you can follow this docs