How to Install Tandoor Recipes on macOS

Tandoor Recipes is a tool that allows you to quickly and easily create recipes for deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes. In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps needed to install Tandoor Recipes on macOS.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure your system meets the following requirements:

Additionally, you will need a basic understanding of the terminal and command-line interface.

Installation Steps

  1. Open the terminal application by pressing "Cmd + Spacebar," typing "terminal" and hitting Enter.

  2. Install Helm by running the following command:

    brew install helm
    

    This will install the Helm package manager that Tandoor Recipes depends on.

  3. Clone the Tandoor Recipes repository by running the following command:

    git clone https://github.com/tandoor-dev/recipes.git
    

    This will create a copy of the repository in your current directory.

  4. Change into the Tandoor Recipes directory:

    cd recipes
    
  5. Run the following command to deploy Tandoor Recipes in your Kubernetes cluster:

    helm install tandoor -n tandoor --create-namespace kubernetes/helm/tandoor/
    

    This command will deploy the Tandoor Recipes chart in the "tandoor" namespace.

  6. Wait for Tandoor to be deployed before accessing its UI.

    You can check that it is deployed by running:

    kubectl -n tandoor get pods
    
  7. Run the following command to set up port forwarding, which will allow you to access the Tandoor Recipes UI locally:

    kubectl port-forward service/tandoor-web 9000:80 -n tandoor
    
  8. Access the Tandoor Recipes UI by opening your web browser and going to http://localhost:9000.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed Tandoor Recipes on macOS! From here, you can use the UI to create and manage recipes for your Kubernetes cluster.

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