This repo hosts a wiki page, Utopia: Tutorials: Getting Started, which is a copy of the tutorial we ask GoCardless engineers to complete as part of their onboarding.
See the associated blog post here: https://medium.com/gocardless-tech/gocardless-getting-started-infrastructure-tutorial-ab857aa91c9e
The tutorial is part of documentation for utopia, a tool and associated configuration libraries that GoCardless use to manage their infrastructure. It is a work in progress, and changing continuously.
Utopia has several aims:
- Developers should be able to self-service all common operations
- Only production environments require change-control, to ease experimentation
- It is easy to understand the effect a change will have once deployed
- Any configuration should be schema'd, documented, and verifiable
As a new joiner following the tutorial, it helps setup a web server inside a playground Kubernetes cluster, which can be curled from their own laptop.
If you have questions about this content, just tweet us at @GoCardlessEng. We'll be happy to answer!
