# mercury

**Repository Path**: icloudnative/mercury

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: mercury
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-05-20
- **Last Updated**: 2021-05-20

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# Mercury 

`Mercury` is a tool that install Kubernetes KinD cluster with MetalLB in a few minutes.

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Over years, numerous tools have been developed to provide bootstrap capabilities for a Kubernetes cluster. A considerable proportion of these tools focus on constructing a holistic cluster installation while supplying several flag options for advanced configuration. Undoubtedly, this is the state of the art for when it comes to production-ready clusters, however, these install mechanisms prove to be ponderous and time-consuming for the product development and testing stages. The end-user community required lightweight bootstrap tools to enable speedy and reliable infrastructure provisioning on local environments.

Nowadays, the most prominent tools that simplify the cluster creation on a local machine are minikube, kind, microK8s, k3s, etc. `Mercury` will focus on highlighting kind as a provisioning tool and its advanced configuration to tailor the networking layer. For the sake of simplicity, MetalLB will be the first citizen in this installation.

## Prerequisites

Kind is an open-source tool that generates Kubernetes clusters using Docker. 

The prerequisites is to install `Docker` in your OS.

## Getting started

### Installation

Once `Docker` is installed, all you have to do is to clone this repo and type `./install`

```bash
git clone https://github.com/solarmesh-io/mercury.git
cd mercury
./install
```

### Clean up

When the KinD is no longer needed, you can simply uninstall it

```bash
./uninstall
```