Completing the Continuous Delivery pipeline

After discussing all the aspects of Ansible, environments, nonfunctional testing, and versioning, we are ready to extend the Jenkins pipeline and finalize a simple, but complete, Continuous Delivery pipeline.

We will do it in a the following few steps:

• Create the inventory of staging and production environments
• Use version in the Kubernetes deployment
• Use remote Kubernetes cluster as the staging environment
• Update acceptance tests to use the staging Kubernetes cluster
• Release the application to the production environment
• Add a smoke test that makes sure that the application was successfully released

Inventory

We have seen the inventory file in the previous chapter while describing...