#gitops - April 2019

Here are the slides: https://cloudposse.com/slides/gitops-with-terraform-on-codefresh-webinar/

(video will be posted later)

So im trying to deploy to my k8s cluster w/ helm via my ci tool and I’d like for those helm deploys to kick off based off merges into special branches. For example, merging a PR into develop would kick off a helm upgrade to the dev cluster and merging a release PR into master would kick off a helm upgrade to the prod cluster. How are those of you following this pattern handling the fact that helm doesn’t redeploy pods using images on a specific tag (develop) even if there is a more recent version of that image?

we've used a number of strategies

for develop you can use helm upgrade --recreate-pods option 😃

or just always tag yur docker images also with a git ref

then use the git ref for the image tag

--recreate-pods will cause a brief outage

so your repo has a tag per commit?

we tag every docker image with a git ref

ah

i misread that

that way there is a 1:1 relationship between git and docker

so when you merge into master, that will re-build the docker image meaning that you would be technically deploying with a different image (although should be identical)?

yes, but our process is different

we merge to master, we build

especially since we usually squash merge

we use release tags to deploy to environments

release tags therefore only retag a docker image. no rebuilding required.

master is continuously delivered to staging

release tags go to production.

1.2.3-foobar goes to the foobar environment

e.g. 1.2.3-prod

1.2.3 goes no where

then for PRs we deploy each one into a new namespace on the staging cluster

e.g. pr1234 of the example repo gets deployed to pr1234-example namespace

so for your prod deploys, they are not being triggered via git

they totally are

100% git driven

ohh

youre saying

by tagging a commit, you are pushing to specific environments?

so when you push that tag, it triggers the deploy

yes

retag the image

thank you, i believe thats the step i was missing

deploy it

in our case, we use github

so we use the UI for releases

i do to

but essentially it's tags

releases also have webhook events

so you create a release, which triggers a deploy in codefresh

we register those with codefresh

yup

nice thats what i’ll do

how do you like codefresh?

and then you can throw in an approval step

i believe you guys are big fans

so it queues it up for deployment, but someone higher up has to click approve

yes, we're big time fans of #codefresh

approval step is a codefresh thing or github?

codefresh correct

approval step is a codefresh step

nice nice

we’re on circle right now, which isnt my favorite

yea, circle definitely has the marketshare

but i believe i can perform all of those still

with circle

and the two have been converging on functionality

but codefresh has tighter k8s integration and native helm support

plus kanban boards so youo can view your releases and what stage they are in

yeah ive built my own helm deploy script to run from circle

thats why i was interested in drone.io but right now its more affordable to pay for circle than run our own 3 node k8s cluster for drone

yea, i dn't like hosting CI/CD

it's foundational infrastructure, that when everything else is done right (IaC) it's just easier to treat the CI/CD as an axiom; it just exists and we don't need to worry about how.

same, but drone does run jobs as native k8s jobs which removes the need for managing agents which is nice

that's nice

but yeah, thinking about our CI/CD platform having uptime issues during a client-facing outage would suck

i feel like we got enough to manage.... kiam, cert-manager, prometheus, grafana, teleport, kibana, fluentd, external-dns, keycloak, etc. . and for those there is no hosted option.

but for CI/CD there is.

haha yeah

sysdig datadog 🤷‍♂️

but i get it

yea, true

sumologic, splunk

but daaaaaaang the prices $$$

yeah they are not cheap

thanks for the help, answered with the exact solution i was looking for @Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

thanks @btai! glad I could help