GitHub-Bootstrap.md

Bootstrap the management cluster (using GitHub repos)

1. Create a GitHub personal access token. Using the GitHub console, navigate to Settings->Developer Settings->Personal Access Tokens. Use the Generate new token button to create a new token, selecting the repo scopes (these are the only ones required for the token used by Flux).

   

2. Export GitHub access token and username to be used by Flux bootstrap command.

   export CLUSTER_NAME=mgmt
   export GITHUB_TOKEN=XXXX
   export GITHUB_USER=<your-github-username>

3. Bootstrap Flux on the management cluster with the mgmt cluster config path.

   flux bootstrap github \
   --components-extra=image-reflector-controller,image-automation-controller \
   --owner=$GITHUB_USER \
   --namespace=flux-system \
   --repository=gitops-system \
   --branch=main \
   --path=clusters/$CLUSTER_NAME \
   --personal

4. Track the progress of the Flux deployments using the Flux CLI. This may take >30 minutes due to exponential backoff, however this is only a one-time process.

   flux get all

   You can watch this to see once it's ready by using:

   watch -n 30 -d flux get all

Once done, continue to follow setup instructions here.