ShapeBlock uses Terraform to spin up infrastructure in your cloud provider’s account. After the VMs are provisioned, k3s is installed on your VMs.

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Why k3s?

It is the simplest, minimum-viable, production ready kubernetes flavour in the market. It is cloud vendor agnostic and has no dependencies on cloud vendor specific services.

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What else is installed?

Some staple helm charts are installed: Cert manager for Let’s encrypt certificate issuer, nginx ingress controller. Local storage is enabled for persistent volume claims.

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Epinio

Epinio is a container native application platform for Kubernetes. It is a helm chart that is installed in your k3s cluster. ShapeBlock communicates with Epinio API for the core applications and services.

ShapeBlock uses Terraform to spin up infrastructure in your cloud provider’s account. After the VMs are provisioned, k3s is installed on your VMs.

​
Why k3s?

It is the simplest, minimum-viable, production ready kubernetes flavour in the market. It is cloud vendor agnostic and has no dependencies on cloud vendor specific services.

​
What else is installed?

Some staple helm charts are installed: Cert manager for Let’s encrypt certificate issuer, nginx ingress controller. Local storage is enabled for persistent volume claims.

​
Epinio

Epinio is a container native application platform for Kubernetes. It is a helm chart that is installed in your k3s cluster. ShapeBlock communicates with Epinio API for the core applications and services.