This topic provides steps for automating an online Swimlane installation into an existing Kubernetes cluster.

To automate this process the following files are needed:

In order to automate a Swimlane installation in to an existing cluster, the SPI Kubectl Add-on must be downloaded and correctly setup on a system with access to the cluster:

For Linux, download and untar the binary file:

curl -sSL -O https://get.swimlane.io/existing-cluster/install/linux
tar -zxvf linux
mv kots /usr/local/bin/kubectl-kotss

For OSX, download and untar the binary file:

curl -sSL -Ohttps://get.swimlane.io/existing-cluster/install/osx
tar -zxvf osx
mv kots /usr/local/bin/kubectl-kots

After the SPI Kubectl Add-on has been installed, install Swimlane with the following command:

kubectl kots install swimlane-platform \ 
  --namespace <Namespace> \ 
  --shared-password <SPI Admin Console Password> \ 
  --license-file <SPI License>.yaml \ 
  --port-forward=false \ 
  --config-values <SPI Config File>.yaml

 file is a YAML-formatted file that outlines the specifications of a Swimlane deployment. You can get the .yaml file from a previously configured installation of SPI or by creating a new file manually.

To obtain a file from an previously configured SPI install, run the following command from a system with access to the Kubernetes API and the SPI Kubectl Add-on installed:

kubectl kots download swimlane-platform -n <namespace>

This command downloads a copy of the entire SPI deployment specifications to a local folder named 

./swimlane-platform/upstream/userdata/config.yaml

To create the file manually, review the configurable options available in the 

Here is a basic version of the config file that you can use for an initial single-node configuration:

apiVersion: kots.io/v1beta1
kind: ConfigValues
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: <Swimlane Namespace>
spec:
  values:
    is_ha:
      value: "0"
    mongo_admin_user_password:
      value: <Base64 encoded string>
    mongo_admin_user_password_confirm:
      value: <Base64 encoded string>
    mongo_swimlane_user_password:
      value: <Base64 encoded string>
    mongo_swimlane_user_password_confirm:
      value: <Base64 encoded string>
    swimlane_database_encrypt_key:
      value: <Base64 encoded string>
    swimlane_database_encrypt_key_confirm:
      value: <Base64 encoded string>
    swimlane_enable_ingress:
      value: "1"
    swimlane_hostname:
      value: <Swimlane Hostname>
    swimlane_ingress_annotations:                            
      value: |-                                              
        <Insert ingress annotations here>
        <Insert ingress annotations here>
    swimlane_storage_class:                                  
      value: <Storage Class Name>

It will take a few minutes for Swimlane to initialize all of the required components. However, automation can effectively 'wait' for a ready state by waiting for a ready status from different parts of the deployment. There are multiple ways to accomplish this wait period, the following code block is just one example:

kubectl wait -l statefulset.kubernetes.io/pod-name=swimlane-sw-mongo-0 --for=condition=ready pod --namespace <Swimlane Namespace> --timeout=240s
export SW_API=$(kubectl get po -n <NameSpace> --no-headers -o custom-columns=":metadata.name" | grep -i api)  
kubectl wait --for=condition=ready pod $SW_API -n <NameSpace> --timeout=240s   

Next, continue with the Swimlane install by creating the initial administrative user.

Using your Swimlane license .lic file, first generate the necessary license block for the API call with a curl command:

curl -kLv -X POST https://<Swimlane URL>/api/settings/license/upload -H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' -F file=@<Swimlane License File>.lic

Then, to create the initial administrative user, insert the returned JSON into the following curl command:

curl -kLv -X POST https://<Swimlane URL>/api/settings/install \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mailSettings":{},
       "password":"<Admin Password>","confirmPassword":"<Admin Password>",
       "databaseEncryptionKey":"",
       "swimlaneUrl":"https://<Swimlane URL>",
       "license" :<Generated JSON Data>,
       "adminUserName":"<Admin Username>",
       "adminEmail":"<Admin Email>"}'  

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