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The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit

By : Viktor Farcic
Book Image

The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit

By: Viktor Farcic

Overview of this book

Building on The DevOps 2.3 Toolkit: Kubernetes, Viktor Farcic brings his latest exploration of the Docker technology as he records his journey to continuously deploying applications with Jenkins into a Kubernetes cluster. The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit: Continuously Deploying Applications with Jenkins to a Kubernetes Cluster is the latest book in Viktor Farcic’s series that helps you build a full DevOps Toolkit. This book guides readers through the process of building, testing, and deploying applications through fully automated pipelines. Within this book, Viktor will cover a wide-range of emerging topics, including an exploration of continuous delivery and deployment in Kubernetes using Jenkins. It also shows readers how to perform continuous integration inside these clusters, and discusses the distribution of Kubernetes applications, as well as installing and setting up Jenkins. Work with Viktor and dive into the creation of self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Docker.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Now It Is Your Turn

Upgrading the production environment using GitOps practices

Right now, our production environment contains Jenkins and ChartMuseum. On the other hand, we created a new production-ready release of go-demo-5. Now we should let our business, marketing, or some other department make a decision on whether they'd like to deploy the new release to production and when should that happen. We'll imagine that they gave us the green light to install the go-demo-5 release and that it should be done now. Our users are ready for it.

We'll deploy the new release manually first. That way we'll confirm that our deployment process works as expected. Later on, we'll try to automate the process through Jenkins.

Our whole production environment is stored in the k8s-prod repository. The applications that constitute it are defined in requirements.yaml file. Let's take another...