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The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit

You're reading from   The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit Continuous Deployment to Kubernetes: Continuously deploying applications with Jenkins to a Kubernetes cluster

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838643546
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Viktor Farcic Viktor Farcic
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1. Deploying Stateful Applications at Scale 2. Enabling Process Communication with Kube API Through Service Accounts FREE CHAPTER 3. Defining Continuous Deployment 4. Packaging Kubernetes Applications 5. Distributing Kubernetes Applications 6. Installing and Setting Up Jenkins 7. Creating a Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Jenkins 8. Continuous Delivery with Jenkins and GitOps 9. Now It Is Your Turn 10. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Installing kubectl and Creating a Cluster with minikube 1. Appendix B: Using Kubernetes Operations (kops)

Creating a cluster

Just as before, we'll start the practical part by making sure that we have the latest version of the k8s-specs repository.

All the commands from this chapter are available in the 08-jenkins-cd.sh (https://gist.github.com/vfarcic/cb0ececf6600745daeac8cc3ae400a86) Gist.
 1  cd k8s-specs
2 3 git pull

Unlike the previous chapters, you cannot use an existing cluster this time. The reason behind that lies in reduced requirements. This time, the cluster should NOT have ChartMuseum. Soon you'll see why. What we need are the same hardware specs (excluding GKE), with NGINX Ingress and Tiller running inside the cluster, and with the environment variable LB_IP that holds the address of the IP through which we can access the external load balancer, or with the IP of the VM in case of single VM local clusters like minikube, minishift, and Docker for Mac or Windows...

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