flightdeck

Flightdeck is a set of Terraform modules from thoughtbot for standing up production grade Kubernetes clusters with SRE practices baked in. Free software, and backed by the consultancy.

Flightdeck packages the Kubernetes setup thoughtbot uses for its clients into Terraform modules. The README describes them as a way to rapidly build production grade clusters with SRE best practices built in, and then offers the company's consulting help scaling an application, improving stability, and raising the rate of defect free deployments. The description on the project page says the same thing in fewer words: Terraform modules for rapidly building production grade Kubernetes clusters following SRE practices.

The repository is explicitly thoughtbot's. It is maintained and funded by the company, the names and logos are its trademarks, and the README links to its other open source projects and to the hire page. The modules are public, but the company connection is front and center, which shapes how the project reads.

The license block is short. The project is copyright Joe Ferris and thoughtbot, free software, and redistributable under the terms in the LICENSE file. There is nothing unusual about it, which is probably the point of keeping it to a few sentences.

The documentation keeps to the essentials: what the modules do, who provides them, and the license. It does not walk through individual module inputs or outputs, so anyone looking for a full reference will have to read the Terraform code itself. For a project whose value sits mostly in the modules, the README stays unusually brief.

• Source 1 · Project repository
• Source 2 · README