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# 4.2 Quickstart and Production Deployment

## Quickstart Guide

Prepare the environment — install prerequisites (KinD, Helm, Docker, kubectl, Flux CLI).

Create a KinD cluster:

```bash
kind create cluster
```

Install flux into the cluster:

```bash
curl -s https://fluxcd.io/install.sh | sudo FLUX_VERSION=2.2.3 bash
flux install
```

Install Harbor using Helm — clone the SCS Harbor deployment repository:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/SovereignCloudStack/k8s-harbor.git
```

Install using the provided Kustomize manifest:

```bash
kubectl apply -k k8s-harbor/envs/dev/
```

Make it accessible on localhost:

```bash
kubectl port-forward svc/harbor 8080:80
```

Accessing the Harbor UI and CLI — username: `admin`, password: `Harbor12345`, at `http://localhost:8080`.

**Assignments:** (1) install prerequisites for Harbor; (2) create a Kubernetes cluster; (3) using the SCS Harbor Helm chart, install a registry service into the cluster; (4) setup and verify access; (5) push an image into the registry and verify through the UI.

## SCS production deployment

**Prerequisites**

* Kubernetes cluster version >= 1.20: `export KUBECONFIG=/path/to/kubeconfig`.
* Flux CLI (it is part of SCS KaaS V1):

```bash
# Installation documentation: https://fluxcd.io/flux/installation/#install-the-flux-cli
curl -s https://fluxcd.io/install.sh | sudo FLUX_VERSION=2.2.3 bash
flux install
```

* kubectl.

**Harbor installation**

Take the ingress-nginx-controller LoadBalancer IP address and create a DNS record for Harbor:

```bash
kubectl get svc -n ingress-nginx
```

Secrets generation and installation:

```bash
base/harbor-secrets.bash # pwgen and htpasswd need to be installed
envs/public/s3-credentials.bash <accesskey> <secretkey>
kubectl apply -k envs/public/
```


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