Hey there, tech aficionados! It is your local byte-wrangling ninja from Calfus here, presenting to you a hot new box of awesomeness, which is sure to blow you off from your feet. We present to you this latest issue hot out from our press: ‘magikube: Your lifeline for all things automation’
Blast from the Past
You're just starting your coding journey, eager to see your creation come to life without any fuss. So, what's your game plan? Crossing your fingers and hoping for all stars to line up? Come on, let’s get real. Those fairy tales might have entertained generations, but in the 21st century, we need solutions that work now.
In today’s fast-paced world of Instagram reels and YouTube shorts, patience is a rare commodity. Everyone wants everything yesterday, and the same goes for developers. Let’s be honest, there's nothing quite like that dopamine rush when you see your terminal light up in green—no errors, no hiccups, just pure, unadulterated success. It's the ultimate feel-good moment for any coder.
But if you’ve ever had your hands in the mud, spinning up resources, configuring environments, or—gasp—building an application from scratch, you know that’s just the beginning of the challenge. And let’s not even talk about the tech debt that piles up when you speed through without addressing the technical hurdles that pop up along the way.
So, what's a modern-day developer to do? How do you balance the need for speed with the importance of doing things right? Spoiler alert: there's no magic wand. But with the right tools and a little bit of know-how, you can streamline the process, cut down on the headaches, and focus on what really matters—writing great code and seeing your projects come to life.
Magical wand to the rescue
So, what's a modern-day developer to do? Gone are the days of StackOverflow and blog posts and public forums where for each and every problem one has to sift through plethora of articles in the hopes of a good night’s sleep (PS. Such concepts don’t exist for the Devs, haha). Yeah, so the best logical thing would be to debug each and every issue that arises and continue to solve them.
Well, we at Calfus Inc. have curated an innovative solution by contribution from some of our industry best and present to you magikube: Your lifeline for all things automation! It is a game changer for teams and the best part of it all is that it is open source. Spinning up production grade ready infrastructure and applications has never been easier. Just running one command on your fancy terminals whips up the whole infrastructure needed with fine grained control over the configurations as well! How cool is that?
How a human body is working with all the organs, tissues, etc our internal organs which are the components like VPC, Instances, Databases, etc needed for magikube to work are already being taken care of by us. These components all require meticulous configuration management to make all components talk to each other.
Let’s get to showing you on what can be achieved by using magikube. One command to rule over them all!
Tech Stack Magic🧙♂️
Wondering what’s the secret sauce behind magikube?
Our solution is a Node package and
hosted on the npm registry. Yep, Node.js is the hero here! While we had the option to go with other popular languages like Python and JavaScript, we chose Node.js for its simplicity and ease of use along with the ability to create a simple CLI tool.
With just one simple command, you’re ready to roll. Node.js also provided us with easy setup using the Oclif framework to easily start with developing magikube. Developing magikube was a good challenge as it has a lot of different cases and configurations. In order to handle the cases and create the correct set of scripts to suit the user’s demands we have utilized liquid.js which is a templating engine and provides the perfect amount of logic required for our use case.
Production grade services
NextJS, ReactJS, and Node Express Backends: Ready to deploy in no time.
GitHub Repos: Seamlessly create and manage repositories.
Authentication & Authorization: Leveraging Keycloak for robust security.
Cloud Power: magikube is designed to be cloud centric currently with support for Amazon Web Services(AWS) but will add support for Azure and GCP.
Being open at heart, we welcome contributions to this project.
First one in the series many more to come. Stay tuned !
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