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Once the Astarte Operator has been installed, and any prerequisite has been fulfilled, you can move forward and deploy an Astarte Cluster.

using-a-standard-astarte-cr

Using a standard Astarte CR

The standard way of deploying an Astarte instance is by creating your own Astarte Custom Resource. This gives you an high degree of customization, allowing you to tweak any single parameter in the Astarte setup.

The main Astarte CRD is extensively documented and the available fields can be inspected here.

To create your Astarte resource, just create your Astarte Custom Resource, which will look something like this:

apiVersion: api.astarte-platform.org/v1alpha1
kind: Astarte
metadata:
  name: astarte
  namespace: astarte
spec:
  # This is the most minimal set of reasonable configuration to spin up an Astarte
  # instance with reasonable defaults and enough control over the deployment.
  version: 1.1.1
  api:
    host: "api.astarte.yourdomain.com" # MANDATORY
  rabbitmq:
    resources:
      requests:
        cpu: 300m
        memory: 512M
      limits:
        cpu: 1
        memory: 1000M
  # this configuration deploys cassandra in cluster. This is not advised for production environments
  cassandra:
    maxHeapSize: 1024M
    heapNewSize: 256M
    storage:
      size: 30Gi
    resources:
      requests:
        cpu: 1
        memory: 1024M
      limits:
        cpu: 2
        memory: 2048M
  vernemq:
    host: "broker.astarte.yourdomain.com"
    sslListener: true
    sslListenerCertSecretName: <your-tls-secret>
    resources:
      requests:
        cpu: 200m
        memory: 1024M
      limits:
        cpu: 1000m
        memory: 2048M
  cfssl:
    resources:
      requests:
        cpu: 100m
        memory: 128M
      limits:
        cpu: 200m
        memory: 256M
    storage:
      size: 2Gi
  components:
    # Global resource allocation. Automatically allocates resources to components weighted in a
    # reasonable way.
    resources:
      requests:
        cpu: 1200m
        memory: 3072M
      limits:
        cpu: 3000m
        memory: 6144M

Starting from Astarte v1.0.1, traffic coming to the broker is TLS terminated ad VerneMQ level. The two fields controlling this features, namely sslListener and sslListenerCertSecretName can be found within the vernemq section of the Astarte CR. In a nutshell, their meaning is:

• sslListener controls whether TLS termination is enabled at VerneMQ level or not,
• sslListenerCertSecretName is the name of TLS secret used for TLS termination (more on how to deal with Astarte certificates here). When sslListener is true, the secret name must be set.

You can simply apply this resource in your Kubernetes cluster with kubectl apply -f <astarte-cr.yaml>. The Operator will take over from there.