smgoller/control-tower

Deploy and operate Concourse-ci in a single command

Control Tower

A tool for easily deploying Concourse in a single command.

TL;DR

(Don't forget to read the pre-requisites!)

AWS

$ AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<access-key-id> \
  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret-access-key> \
  control-tower deploy --iaas aws <your-project-name>

GCP

$ GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=<path/to/googlecreds.json> \
  control-tower deploy --iaas gcp <your-project-name>

Why Control Tower?

The goal of Control Tower is to be the world's easiest way to deploy and operate Concourse CI in production.

In just one command you can deploy a new Concourse environment for your team, on either AWS or GCP. Your Control Tower deployment will upgrade itself and self-heal, restoring the underlying VMs if needed. Using the same command-line tool you can do things like manage DNS, scale your environment, or manage firewall policy. CredHub is provided for secrets management and Grafana for viewing your Concourse metrics.

You can keep up to date on Control Tower announcements by reading the EngineerBetter Blog and by joining the discussion on our Community Slack.

Features

Feature	AWS	GCP
Concourse IP whitelisting	+	+
Credhub	+	+
Custom domains	+	+
Custom tagging	BOSH only	BOSH only
Custom TLS certificates	+	+
Database vertical scaling	+	+
GitHub authentication	+	+
Grafana (on port 3000)	+	+
Interruptable worker support	+	+
Letsencrypt integration	+	+
Namespace support	+	+
Region selection	+	+
Retrieving deployment information	+	+
Retrieving deployment information as shell exports	+	+
Retrieving deployment information in JSON	+	+
Retrieving director NATS cert expiration	+	+
Rotating director NATS cert	+	+
Self-Update support	+	+
Teardown deployment	+	+
Web server vertical scaling	+	+
Worker horizontal scaling	+	+
Worker type selection	+	N/A
Worker vertical scaling	+	+
Zone selection	+	+
Customised networking	+	+

Detailed Documentation

Before you start	Prerequisites
Installing Control Tower	Installation
Flags on all commands	Global flags
Deploying a Concourse	Deploy
Retrieving info from a deployment	Info
Destroying a Concourse	Destroy
Maintaining your Concourse	Maintain
Updating	Updating
Metrics	Metrics
Credential Management	Credhub
How much will this cost?	Cost Estimation
What is it doing? - deep dive	Walkthrough
Want to Contribute?	Development