Reference Cloud Native Architecture (RCNA)

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I'm working on porting this to Kotlin Multiplatform, due to legal and staffing reasons.

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About This Project

About

The best DevOps is the one you can sell.

• This is more than just a Helm replacement.
• Consolidating solutions and approaches accumulated over the last decade.
• Targeting reference deployment Terraform modules.

Many existing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools face limitations regarding long-term viability and enterprise-grade support. Furthermore, these tools often compete with native solutions provided by major cloud vendors, such as AWS CDK and Azure Bicep, leading to potential conflicts of interest. Consequently, the most technically suitable tool is not always the most accessible for customers—both the AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace currently lack support for Terraform-based solutions. Additionally, nearly all major cloud hosting providers maintain their own proprietary marketplace offerings, which also require automation.

With the introduction of AWS Private Marketplace and Azure Private Marketplace, this has become a missed opportunity for many. The CNRA project uses reference deployment Terraform modules, and Yuriy plans to add a tool that can convert Terraform plans to CloudFormation and ARM Templates, in the future. So, everything deployed by CNRA could be shipped as a ready-to-use offering using conventional Cloud Marketplaces. There's also a plan regarding an IaC agnostic FinOps solution...

Components

Components

⚙️ rcna-kube-compute

• ⚖️ keda – scales applications based on metrics, essentially replacing Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
• 🤖 karpenter – automatically provision cluster nodes
• 🔄 descheduler – fixes potential under-provisioning and deprovisioning issues, due to topology skew
• 📏 vpa – vertical pod autoscaling

💾 rcna-kube-storage

• 🗄️ topolvm – dynamic local LVM volumes and snapshotting support
• 🔄 pvc-autoresizer – dynamically resizes PVCs using prometheus metrics
• 📦 local-path-provisioner – static local volumes
• 🪣 minio – S3-compatible object store
• 🐘 cnpg – manage PostgreSQL clusters
• 🍥 stackgres – fallback PostgreSQL cluster operator
• 🦑 scylladb – manage ScyllaDB clusters
• 💾 velero – backup and restore solution

🛠️ rcna-kube-development

• 🪪 dex – cluster identity provider
• 🐙 gitea – cheap GitLab alternative
• 💻 theia – managed IDE

💰 rcna-kube-finops

• 📊 opencost – OpenSource cost management system

🚀 rcna-kube-gitops

• 🌀 argo-cd – GitOps solution
• 🦋 argo-rollouts – canary deployments
• 🛠️ tektoncd – CI/CD solution

🧠 rcna-kube-mlops

• ☁️ kuberay – Ray cluster operator
• 🌋 volcano – Kubernetes batch job scheduler

🌐 rcna-kube-networking

• 🕸️ cilium – CNI
• 🛡️ coraza – web application firewall
• 🌍 external-dns – to manage DNS records

📈 rcna-kube-observability

• 📊 GrafanaLabs OSS – de-facto observability platform

🌍 rcna-kube-provider provider-specific addons

🔒 rcna-kube-security

• 🧑‍⚖️ kyverno – policy engine
• 🔑 external_secrets – provider-specific secrets management
• 🕵️ falco – post-deployment security platform
• 🛡️ kubescape – pre-deployment security platform
• 🔁 reloader – to reload resources on configuration changes

🦀 rcna-macro – rust proc macro

🛠️ rcna-core – core primitives

🧙‍♂️ rcna-portal – internal development portal and reporting

📚 rcna-doc – documentation

📜 Terms of Use

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📝 License

Reference Cloud Native Architecture project is, and forever will be, licensed under the terms of the
Mozilla Public License 2.0.