Summary

You have now successfully created a CI/CD pipeline for your Kubernetes cluster. CI is the process of frequently building and testing software, whereas CD is the practice of regularly deploying software.

In this chapter, you used GitHub Actions as a platform to build a CI/CD pipeline. You started by building the CI pipeline. In that pipeline, you built a container image and pushed it to the container registry.

Finally, you also added a CD pipeline to deploy that container image to your Kubernetes cluster. You were able to verify that by making code changes to a webpage, the pipeline was triggered and code changes were pushed to your cluster.

The CI/CD pipeline you built in this chapter is a starter pipeline that lays the foundation for a more robust CI/CD pipeline that you can use to deploy applications to production. You should consider adding more tests to the pipeline and also integrate it with different branches before using it in production.