Prepare the Toolbox Image
Geodesic is a powerful Linux toolbox container designed to optimize DevOps workflows by providing essential dependencies for a DevOps toolchain, ensuring consistency and efficiency across development environments without additional software installation on your workstation. It can be extended and customized to fit specific needs by creating your own Dockerfile based on Geodesic, allowing you to add your favorite tools and share the container with your team for a unified working environment.
Geodesic is similar in principle to devcontainers. However, being a container itself, Geodesic can run anywhere containers are supported—whether on your local workstation, remotely inside clusters, or on bastion hosts. Additionally, you can use Geodesic as the base image for a devcontainer.
Geodesic in action.
Building the Toolbox Image
Build the Geodesic infrastructure container. This is a container that has all the tools for building the app. It's built
from the Dockerfile using a Makefile.
The standard Makefile includes a number of commands. In order to build the initial, complete Geodesic image, run the
following:
make all
On future builds, use make run to use the cached image.
Build the toolbox image locally before continuing.
Follow the toolbox image setup steps in the How-to Get Started guide. In short,
run make all.
The container will have the given local home mapped, so you should be able to use aws normally inside it once you set a profile that has valid credentials. For instance, if I log in to the profile acme with leapp, I can run aws --profile acme sts get-caller-identity and get a response.
Once you've verified that the infra container has access to aws resources, we can move on to the next step.
What comes next?
With your repository set up, workstation configured and toolbox in hand, you're ready to get to work provisioning your infrastructure with Atmos and Terraform. The next step is to learn how to provision AWS accounts.
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