Application Repositories

Application repository allows you to manage multiple applications and their charts from a single location. With application repository, you can create, manage, add, and upgrade an application. Application repository also lets you view a chart showing the list of applications you have installed. Many Helm repositories are available with Cloud Orbiter, including bitnami, prometheus-community, camel-k, cert-manager, etc. When creating an application, you have to select the repository name.

Suppose you have added a new application repository to your charts and want it to reflect automatically in your chart or app catalog, then in that case, Cloud Orbiter provides an option called refresh. Within 24 hours, the newly created application repository will trigger automatically in the chart using the refresh button to update your application chart.

  • App catalog lists applications and their repositories. You can also create an application and download the YAML file from the app catalog.
  • YAML file lets you define the default values of an application like kubeVersion, image registry, replica count, volume size, and many more. With each application, you can specify the settings depending upon the applications. Cloud Orbiter provides TLS Verify and mTLS while creating an application repository.
TLS Verify and mTLS for Cloud Orbiter's Application Repository

Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) protocols provide encrypted communications and endpoint authentication on the Internet. Cloud Orbiter uses these two protocols to create the network of trusted servers and to ensure that all communications over that network are encrypted.

Procedure to add an application repository

  • Go to the left ribbon menu in Cloud Orbiter. Click on Settings tab.
  • Click Application Repository under Overview.
  • Click on +Add Repository button.

  • Fill in all the details in the form and click the Create button.

    Once the application repository is created, it will be visible on the repository dashboard. It will show you your created repository name with the URL. You can delete or sync or refresh the repository.

  • Go to App Catalog from the left ribbon menu.

    App catalog lists created applications with repositories. Using the refresh button, you can view the recently added application repository. You can also create application and download YAML files from App catalog. The Helm repository provides a mechanism to manually update or sync the helm repository catalog based on the updates available in the helm repository. It can be triggered by the sync operation provided for a repository.