Docs: Setting up Initium platform in AKS Cluster

quick-start-aks.md

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+# Quick start
+
+In this guide we will see how to start the [Initium Platform](https://github.com/nearform/initium-platform) on a AKS cluster and deploy an application to it from a GitHub action using the [Initium CLI](https://github.com/nearform/initium-cli).
+
+## Install Azure CLI Locally
+Ignore this step if you already have Azure CLI setup.
+
+Install `azure-cli` on your machine by following the [Azure official guide](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli). 
+
+## Login to Azure
+
+Run the command below. Note that there are different ways one can log into Azure using the Azure CLI. Refer to the [az login docs](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/authenticate-azure-cli) if you have any questions.
+
+For this guide, we'll use the option `Sign in interactively`, which will open a browser window to prompt the user for their login credentials.
+
+``` bash
+az login
+```
+
+In case you have access to multiple Azure Subscriptions, set the account using the CLI, as described below:
+
+``` bash
+az account set -s <Subscription name or Id>
+```
+## Create AKS Cluster
+
+You can ignore this step if you already have a working AKS cluster.
+
+From your terminal, run the commands below to create a AKS cluster. Note that you need to create a new resource group to host the AKS resource (already covered by the commands).
+
+``` bash
+export AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP="<Your Resource Group Name>"
+export AKS_CLUSTER="initium-test-aks-cluster" # Set the name of the cluster as you require
+
+# Create Log Analytics Workspace
+export AKS_MONITORING_LOG_ANALYTICS_WORKSPACE_ID=$(az monitor log-analytics workspace create \
+    --resource-group ${AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP} \
+    --workspace-name initium-test-aks-workspace \
+    --query id \
+    -o tsv)
+
+# Create AKS Cluster
+az aks create --resource-group ${AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP} \
+            --name ${AKS_CLUSTER} \
+            --enable-managed-identity \
+            --generate-ssh-keys \
+            --admin-username aksnodeadmin \
+            --node-count 1 \
+            --enable-cluster-autoscaler \
+            --min-count 1 \
+            --max-count 2 \
+            --network-plugin kubenet \
+            --node-vm-size Standard_DS3 \
+            --nodepool-labels nodepool-type=system nodepoolos=linux app=system-apps \
+            --nodepool-name systempool \
+            --nodepool-tags nodepool-type=system nodepoolos=linux app=system-apps \
+            --enable-addons monitoring \
+            --workspace-resource-id ${AKS_MONITORING_LOG_ANALYTICS_WORKSPACE_ID} \
+            --network-policy calico \
+            --vm-set-type VirtualMachineScaleSets \
+            --kubernetes-version 1.26.6
+
+# Get Kubernetes credentials
+az aks get-credentials --name ${AKS_CLUSTER}  --resource-group ${AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP} 
+
+```
+We recommend you to use `Standard_DS3` as the VM Node size as the Initium workloads need some memory (around 14 GiB)
+
+## Initium Platform Setup
+
+### Clone the platform repository
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/nearform/initium-platform.git
+```
+
+### Install the required tooling
+
+```bash
+cd initium-platform
+make asdf_install
+```
+
+**NOTE: at this point you will need an AKS Cluster ready to use.**
+
+### Check Cluster access
+
+``` bash
+
+export AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP="<Update your resource group>"
+export AKS_CLUSTER="initium-test-aks-cluster"
+
+# Configure Credentials
+az aks get-credentials --name ${AKS_CLUSTER}  --resource-group ${AKS_RESOURCE_GROUP} 
+
+# List Nodes
+kubectl get nodes
+
+# Cluster Info
+kubectl cluster-info
+
+```
+
+### Install ArgoCD
+From the root of the `initium-platform` repo run below command
+
+```bash
+make argocd
+```
+
+### Install ArgoCD Apps
+
+Apply the `initium-platform` app-of-apps.yaml manifest
+- Check the [initium-platform releases page](https://github.com/nearform/initium-platform/releases) for the file
+- Apply it with
+```bash
+kubectl apply -f app-of-apps.yaml
+```
+
+### Access ArgoCD and wait for the services to go green
+- If you installed ArgoCD using `initium-platform`, you should be able to create a port forward to the ArgoCD service.
+    ```bash
+    kubectl port-forward -n argocd svc/argocd-server 8080:80
+    ```
+- then you retrieve the admin credentials with
+    ```bash
+    kubectl -n argocd get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d
+    ```
+- and access it on http://localhost:8080
+
+## Setup Initium CLI.
+Ignore these steps in case you already have Initium CLI installed.
+
+- Download the lastest release of the CLI for your operating system [here](https://github.com/nearform/initium-cli/releases) and add it to your PATH.
+- Alternatively you can build the CLI from source refer [repo](https://github.com/nearform/initium-cli)
+
+## Deploy demo app via github actions on PR
+
+1. Fork the Initium [NodeJS demo app](https://github.com/nearform/initium-nodejs-demo-app)
+
+> Remember to set the GitHub Actions workflow permissions to "read and write" [here](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/enabling-features-for-your-repository/managing-github-actions-settings-for-a-repository#configuring-the-default-github_token-permissions)
+
+2. Setup environment varibale to hold the cluster credentials
+    - remember to replace `<YOUR_CLUSTER_NAME>` with your cluster name in below commands
+
+```bash
+    initium init service-account | kubectl apply -f -
+
+    export INITIUM_LB_ENDPOINT="$(kubectl get service -n istio-ingress istio-ingressgateway -o go-template='{{(index .status.loadBalancer.ingress 0).ip}}'):80"
+
+    export INITIUM_CLUSTER_ENDPOINT=$(kubectl config view -o jsonpath='{.clusters[?(@.name == "<YOUR CLUSTER NAME>")].cluster.server}')
+
+    export INITIUM_CLUSTER_TOKEN=$(kubectl get secrets initium-cli-token -o jsonpath="{.data.token}" | base64 -d)
+
+    export INITIUM_CLUSTER_CA_CERT=$(kubectl get secrets initium-cli-token -o jsonpath="{.data.ca\.crt}" | base64 -d)
+```
+
+3. [Create the following secrets](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/encrypted-secrets#creating-encrypted-secrets-for-a-repository) in your forked repo
+
+    - CLUSTER_CA_CERT: `echo $INITIUM_CLUSTER_CA_CERT`
+    - CLUSTER_TOKEN: `echo $INITIUM_CLUSTER_TOKEN`
+    - CLUSTER_ENDPOINT: use the output of `echo $INITIUM_CLUSTER_ENDPOINT` in the format `ADDRESS:PORT`
+
+4. Initialize the initium config and actions in a new branch of the repo you forked
+
+```bash
+cd initium-nodejs-demo-app
+git checkout -b initium-test
+initium init config --persist
+initium init github
+```
+
+5. Commit the changes and open a PR
+
+6. Wait for the action to finish running and check the logs for the application endpoint
+
+If you followed the guide, the endpoint should look like the following
+
+```bash
+curl -H "Host: initium-nodejs-demo-app.initium-test.example.com" $INITIUM_LB_ENDPOINT
+```
+
+And the call should return:
+
+```
+Hello, World!
+```
+
+7. If you merge the PR (DO NOT DELETE THE BRANCH RIGHT AWAY!!!), the service will be removed and a new one will be created for the main branch.
+
+```
+curl -H "Host: initium-nodejs-demo-app.main.example.com" $INITIUM_LB_ENDPOINT
+```
+
+8. 🚀
+