deploy-flyte-kind-vm

Deploy Flyte on kind — local machine or a cloud VM

kind runs anywhere Docker runs, so the same Flyte-on-kind deploy works on your own machine or on a cloud VM. This skill picks the host, provisions it if it's a cloud VM, installs the prerequisites, and then runs the actual Flyte deploy — the cluster, the hosted PostgreSQL + object store, the helm install, and optional auth — by handing off to the deploy-flyte-kind skill. The only things that change per host are where the commands run and how you reach the API afterward.

For evaluation only. Single-node kind, static credentials, no workload identity. On a cloud VM the stack is reachable from the public internet, so the provisioning steps below restrict inbound 80/443 (and 22) to your own IP. For production, use the flyte-deploy-aws skill instead.

This skill is guided: several steps need human-in-the-loop input — which host, confirming billable VM creation, SSH keys, and (in the deploy hand-off) the Supabase / R2 / S3 credentials. Ask; never invent account IDs, IPs, keys, or passwords.

Step 0: Choose the host

Ask the user where to run the cluster (use AskUserQuestion):

• Local machine — kind runs in your local Docker. Simplest; nothing to provision.
• DigitalOcean — a Droplet, provisioned with doctl.
• AWS EC2 — an instance, provisioned with the aws CLI.
• GCP Compute Engine — an instance, provisioned with gcloud.

Then:

• Local machine → skip to Step 3 (nothing to provision). The whole deploy runs locally.
• A cloud VM → do Step 1 (provision) and Step 2 (define how remote commands run), then Step 3.

kind needs a few GB of headroom, so any VM should be at least 4 vCPU / 8 GB.

Step 1: Provision the cloud VM (skip for local)

First confirm the provider CLI is installed and authenticated locally, since these commands run on your machine:

# DigitalOcean
command -v doctl >/dev/null && doctl account get >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "doctl: install and run 'doctl auth init'"
# AWS
command -v aws   >/dev/null && aws sts get-caller-identity >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "aws: install and configure credentials"
# GCP
command -v gcloud >/dev/null && gcloud auth list >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "gcloud: install and run 'gcloud auth login'"