Welcome to CAPE

About

Organizations struggle to manage their Kubernetes clusters at a level expected by various stakeholders; they are debilitated by a lack of resources, expertise and tools. Organizations need to overcome these obstacles and become Kubernetes-ready. CAPE will provide organizations with the tooling and ability to perform:

• Disaster Recovery
  • Utilize Velero, an open source Kubernetes tool for backup & restore
  • Perform single scheduled backup & restore
  • Perform multi-cluster & multi-cloud backup & restore
• Multi-cluster application deployment
• Multi-cluster DNS and ingress

CAPE enables you to manage Kubernetes clusters on day one without specialized knowledge or proprietary API/CLI experience.

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Find out more about CAPE:

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Try CAPE SAAS for FREE

Install CAPE

There are 2 options for accessing CAPE. Follow one of the options below as "root" user on the machine that you want to deploy to.

Option 1:

Access CAPE UI with a local private IP env.

Eg: You and your VM are at home and you want to access using a private IP e.g., 192.168.1.7

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cape-sh/cape-ansible/master/script/capesaaPvtIP.sh > capesaaPvtIP.sh
sh capesaaPvtIP.sh

Option 2:

Access CAPE UI with a public IP env.

Eg: Your VM is in the cloud and has a public IP e.g., 13.103.25.99

curl  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cape-sh/cape-ansible/master/script/capesaasPubIP.sh > capesaasPubIP.sh
sh capesaasPubIP.sh

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Access CAPE UI

The service may take 1-5 mins to come up based on the server config and the internet bandwidth.

URL

http://<Your_server_ip>.nip.io/

** All CAPE documentation is available here **

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What do the different Ansible roles do?

 1. Prereq: Prerequisite config at the os layer e.g., autoconfigure all repositories , SELinux , disable firewall etc.
 2. Download: Downloads all the relevant packages and scripts
 3. K3S: Installs k3s, crictl master on centos7/RHEL7 
 4. Cape: Installs the CAPE SAAS application & enables access to CAPE GUI via URL
 5. Reset: Uninstalls the Kubernetes packages from your machine 

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Troubleshooting

Login as root to your machine

kubectl get pods -n cape

Make sure all pods are in a healthy state else kill any unhealthy pods and they will restart within a few seconds

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RESET everything using playbook

Login as root to your machine

Run this playbook to uninstall Kubernetes and crictl

cd cape-ansible
ansible-playbook reset.yml

"cape-ansible" directory is located where the capesaasPubIP.sh or capesaasPvtIP.sh script was downloaded earlier.

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Recommended System requirements

OS: Centos 7.3/7.4/7.5  
CPU: 2 core
RAM: 4GB RAM
Disk Space: 10 GB free 
Server Internet access: Yes

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Get Started with CAPE

Use this tutorial to get started quickly.

Get Involved

We appreciate your feedback and active participation.

If you want to get in touch with us to discuss improvements and new features, please create a new issue on GitHub or connect with us over on Slack:

• #general Slack channel