Scratchplate

A Kubernetes platform to experiment security features including

• Istio Service Mesh
• Request-Level Authentication
• Keycloak IDP

Supported targets

• Kind

Prerequisites

Required for deployment (Ansible playbook)

• kind
• istioctl
• helm
• kubectl
• ansible
• curl

Optional (needed for token/query helper scripts)

• jq

Installation

Preferred (single command)

cd ansible
ansible-galaxy collection install -r collections/requirements.yml
ansible-playbook playbooks/deploy.yml

Legacy step-by-step wrappers (now backed by Ansible)

• 1-create-kind-cluster.sh
• 2-create-keycloak-realm.sh
• 3-deploy-apps.sh

Uninstallation

kind delete cluster --name scratchplate