k8s-mastodon

Kubenetes configuration to quickly deploy your mastodon instance.

WARNING: still under testing

It's not a stable configuration and is not recommend to use in reality.

How to deploy

Requirements

• Kubenetes on your machines
• kubectl
• Python 3

Step by Step

0. Setup your kubenetes clusters
1. Clone this repository and enter.
2. Change configurations (MUST DO, see next section).
3. kubectl apply -k .
4. Wait and look if the services run correctly.
5. Look at the ports of mastodon-web and mastodon-streaming, or deployment mastodon, setup port-forwarding and config your HTTP server to proxy. For example:

kubectl port-forward deployment/mastodon-mastodon 3000:3000
kubectl port-forward deployment/mastodon-mastodon 4000:4000

Configuration

k8s-mastodon is not out of box, you must set variables to fit you needs.

0. In kustomization.yaml, change the database password.

1. Look at mastodon/configuration.yaml to change configurations for mastodon.

2. Save your VIPID private key and public key to files. Use python mastodon/generate_secrets.py <path/to/private_key> <path/to/pubic_key> mastodon in the root of the project to save secrets for mastodon. You may use npm install web-push -g to install web-push commandline tool and run web-push generate-vapid-keys to get them (NPM and NodeJS required).

3. (optional) Turn to mastodon/system-pvsize.yaml for avaliable spaces (default is 10GiB) to save user uploaded contents.

4. (optional) Turn to smtp-gate/configuration.yaml for email configuration if you prefer third-party server than own SMTP relay.

5. (optional) Turn to postgresql/pvsize.yaml for the avaliable space (default is 10GiB) of database.