kraken-tools conveniently manages all system requirements for kraken-lib. As the base layer, it contains all necessary and expected dependencies at specific, tested versions for correct and repeatable operations of kraken-lib and kraken.

It is best to perform any work on dependencies and other environment issues here and let kraken-lib build focus on installing and configuring the code in the kraken-lib repo.

If you want to use kraken-lib to create a Kubernetes cluster on AWS or GKE for production or development, use kraken-tools to avoid versioning and dependency issues. By running kraken-lib inside a kraken-tools Docker container, your environment will be compliant with kraken-lib's requirements.

Docker must be installed on the machine where you run kraken-tools and your user must have permissions to run it.

Fork and clone this repo to a local computer and run docker build . from the kraken-tools directory to create a Docker container with the dependencies to successfully create your cluster.

We welcome all types of contributions from the community and and don't require a contributor license agreement. To simplify merging, we prefer pull requests based on a feature branch in your personal fork that's based off the current master of the repo. For more details, please refer to our kraken-lib Contributing document.

Here are some additional resources you might find useful:

• #kraken Slack on k8s.slack.com
• kraken
• kraken-lib issue tracker
• kraken-tools

This document is maintained by Patrick Christopher (@coffeepac) at Samsung SDS.