r-shiny-infrastructure-poc

A proof-of-concept repo for deploying containerised R Shiny apps. See also respositories for building the auth image and the app images.

Usage:

With a working kubernetes cluster, you should be able to run:

$ terraform init
$ terraform plan
$ terraform apply

The logic for deploying Apache + R Shiny is encapsulated in the shiny-app Terraform module.
This module takes configuration by being invoked in the top-level main.tf file.
The deployments.tf contains all the R-specific options to manage multiple deployments (image + access type for each R Shiny app).
The deployment config could have different edit rights to the rest of the repository (see .github/CODEOWNERS)
The module allows the R Shiny deployments to be scaled independently of each other.
The module allows different R Shiny deployments to be authenticated differently.
For the purposes of this POC, no Egress is configured; just NodePort services to make the auth deployments accessible via host ports.
For the purposes of this POC, OIDC demo authentication has been provided using Auth0's free service.

This POC is configured to use Auth0 as an Identity Provider.

You'll need to provide appropriate secret values to Terraform, which will be bootstrapped into the Apache configuration:

# A starting point:
$ cp terraform.tfvars{.sample,}