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Deploying to OTC	Deploying to OTC	100	Open Telekom Cloud as deployment and infrastructure target

Overview

OTC, Open Telekom Cloud, is one of the cloud platform offerings by Deutsche Telekom and offers GDPR compliant cloud services. The system is based on OpenStack.

Key Features

• Managed Kubernetes
• Managed services including
  • Databases
    • RDS PostgreSQL
    • ElasticSearch
  • S3 compatible storage
  • DNS Management
  • Backup & Restore of Kubernetes volumes and managed services

Purpose in EDP

OTC is used to host core infrastructure to provide the primary, public EDP instance and as a test bed for Kubernetes based workloads that would eventually be deployed to EdgeConnect.

Service components such as Forgejo, Grafana, Garm, and Coder are deployed in OTC Kubernetes utilizing managed services for databases and storage to reduce the maintenance and setup burden on the team.

Services and workloads are primarily provisioned using Terraform.

Repository

Code:

• https://edp.buildth.ing/DevFW/infra-catalogue - Terraform modules of various system components
• https://edp.buildth.ing/DevFW/infra-deploy - Runs deployment worklows, contains base configuration of deployed system instances and various deployment scripts
• https://edp.buildth.ing/DevFW-CICD/stacks - Template of a system configuration divided into multiple, deployable application stacks
• https://edp.buildth.ing/DevFW-CICD/stacks-instances - System configurations of deployed instances hydrated from the stacks template

Terraform Provider:

• https://registry.terraform.io/providers/opentelekomcloud/opentelekomcloud/latest/docs

Documentation:

• https://www.open-telekom-cloud.com/
• https://www.open-telekom-cloud.com/en/products-services/core-services/technical-documentation

OTC Console

• https://console.otc.t-systems.com/console/

TODO: EDP <-> managed services