Kubernetes on Caktus Group

Self-Hosting ODK Central on DigitalOcean with Kubernetes and PostgreSQL

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0500

ODK Central is a powerful open-source platform for creating and managing digital forms for data collection. While ODK offers cloud-hosted solutions, many organizations require self-hosted deployments for data sovereignty, custom integrations, or compliance requirements.

Handling Configuration and Server Snippets When Upgrading to ingress-nginx 1.12.0

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

As part of our ongoing Sustainability and Maintenance efforts, we are upgrading our Kubernetes clusters to version 1.32. Much like a major Django upgrade, this process requires us to update other key components to ensure they remain compatible. One of these is the ingress-nginx controller, which manages external access to the cluster.

How to Create a Helm Chart for a Django App

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000

At Caktus, we use Helm charts to simplify our deployment process for Django projects. Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes, and using Helm charts allows us to automate the process of writing Kubernetes configuration files for our Django applications. We use it together with GitHub Actions and Ansible to streamline our deployment processes.

Migrate to Amazon EKS Add-ons

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:07:44 +0000

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) released support for operational cluster add-on software, or Amazon EKS add-ons, around Kubernetes version 1.19 in May 2021. These include:

How to Use Kubernetes on Azure for Cloud Computing

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:41:03 +0000

For the Review, Appraisal, and Triage of Mail (RATOM) project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we were tasked with deploying to a Microsoft Azure environment. More details about the project are in our first blog post in this Learn With Us blog series. Caktus has experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, but we hadn't had the opportunity to use Azure yet, so we looked forward to the opportunity to use that environment and document our experience. The entire deployment process is available on GitHub as a reference under the StateArchivesOfNorthCarolina/ratom-deploy repository.