NEOS MEETUP
INTRODUCTION TO CI/CD WITH
GITLAB AND KUBERNETES
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SNOWFLAKE OPS AG
spin-off hosting departement snowflake productions gmbh
whitelabel hosting for web agencies/developers
high performance, heavy automated
running ~1500 applications for ~30 customers
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AGENDA
Gitlab features "Idea to Production"
(most of it shamelessly stolen from about.gitlab.com )
Current status
Forecast/Conclusion
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SETUP
Docker
Kubernetes
GitLab-Omnibus Helm Chart
Helm Chart related to the project
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DOCKER CONTAINERS
multiple options
Docker Hub: 96 repositories for "neos"
create own containers
keep continuous updates in mind
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WORKFLOW
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IDEA (CHAT)
chat notifications
/ commands
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PLAN: ISSUE
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PLAN: BOARD
Milestones, Labels
EE: Story Points, Burndown Charts
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CREATE: COMMIT & MERGE REQUEST
new feature branch
new environmont for this feature automatically added
DEVELOPMENT
conventional development on local system
local container from Gitlab registry
feature branch environment Kubernetes
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SHELL ACCESS
access to feature branch environment Kubernetes
Development (?) Debugging (✓)
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REVIEW
check changes
Git diff, code review, discussions
automatated tests, e.g. Behat
manual tests on feature branch environment
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MERGE REQUEST
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PRODUCTION DEPLOYMENT
for the sake of simplicity, we deploy to production directly
we could insert a staging environment
we could deploy production manually
we, or our customer, could deploy production through chat
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PRODUCTION
http://neos-website.neosmeetup01.opsserver.ch/
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CURRENT STATUS
Containers in production since January 2016
(Gitlab, Discourse, Mailserver, CI)
Web applications: Container pipeline up to and including
review, production still conventional