Deployment and Packaging

From commit to production—see how code gets from a laptop to running live in production.

There are seemingly infinite ways to get code from a developer into production. In the simplest example, a website hosted on GitHub pages has a single step—a developer commits code—and the changes are reflected in production. In most applications, however, there are many more steps between the developer and the results being live in production, and they can vary from application to application. There numerous are different ways to assemble a deployment pattern.

A deployment pattern generally contains elements from four key areas.

Each of these areas satisfies different requirements based on a particular application’s needs. For applications like human resource systems, compliance and audit is crucial, whereas for a mobile website, continuous integration and rapid deployment are most important.

What kind of tools are needed to meet the requirements of those areas? Which users will directly interact with or manage which tools?

From a developer’s perspective, the items on the left are the most important, because developers use them on a daily basis. But there are a lot of components on the right-hand side that can be necessary before going into production. When it comes to this particular pattern, that is where there will not only be deeper dives on each of these areas and tools, but also examples of where these components are brought together to deliver code from commit to production.

Guides

What is CI/CD?

Getting Started with Tekton Part 1: Hello World

Walk through the set up and installation of Tekton, a set of open source Kubernetes resources to build and run CI/CD pipelines.

What Is Helm?

Learn the basics of Helm, a tool to help you define, install, and upgrade applications running on Kubernetes, and explore how it works.

Getting Started with Tekton Part 2: Building a Container

Using Tekton, an automation tool for CI/CD pipelines, learn how to build container images from a Dockerfile on top of Kubernetes.

How to use Harbor Registry to Eliminate Docker Hub Rate Limits

Getting Started with the `pack` CLI using Cloud Native Buildpacks

Discover how to use pack, a CLI tool that builds container images locally on your developer machine using Cloud Native Buildpacks

Getting Started with Using Helm to Deploy Apps on Kubernetes

Learn how to use Helm to help define, install, upgrade applications, and deploy apps on Kubernetes, from set up to configuring and changing values.

What are Kubernetes Secrets and Service Accounts?

Kubernetes Secrets are a collection of keys and values that let you store sensitive information and a service account describes the set of permissions.

Creating Your First Helm Chart

Create your first ever Helm chart and learn what goes inside these packages.

Getting Started with `kpack` to Automate Builds using Cloud Native Buildpacks

Discover how to use kpack, a Kubernetes-native build service that uses Cloud Native Buildpacks to build OCI-compliant container images on Kubernetes.

Getting Started with Cloud Foundry for Kubernetes

Learn about the tools required to use Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes with the CF-for-k8s platform to add a higher level of abstraction.

What is Helmfile?

Helmfile is a declarative specification for deploying distributions of Helm charts and provides additional functionality to Helm.

Best Practices for Creating Production-Ready Helm Charts

This tutorial will show you which are the best practices that any chart developer should follow.

Getting Started with Kubeapps

Walk through the process of deploying Kubeapps for your cluster and installing an example application with this step-by-step Kubeapps guide.

Deploy from a Private Helm Repository Using Kubeapps

Create a private registry for your customized Helm chart using Harbor and Kubeapps.

Installing Harbor on Kubernetes with Project Contour, Cert Manager, and Let’s Encrypt

Looking to run a private container image for self-hosting or enterprise purposes? This guide walks through deploying Harbor to Kubernetes.

Customize GitLab's Default Auto DevOps Pipeline with Bitnami's Helm Charts

Enhance and customize GitLab's Auto DevOps CI/CD pipeline with Bitnami's Helm charts

Create a Continuous Integration Pipeline with GitLab and Kubernetes

Configure a CI/CD pipeline using GitLab and a Kubernetes cluster

Getting Started with ArgoCD on Kubernetes

Deploy applications to Kubernetes with ArgoCD, a declarative GitOps tool that is lightweight and easy to configure.

What are Cloud Native Buildpacks?

Learn the basics of Cloud Native Buildpacks and discover how they work and how to use them to turn your code into OCI-compliant containers.

Getting Started with Concourse CI

Install Concourse CI onto Kubernetes with VMware Tanzu as an automation engine for cloud native CI/CD and build declarative pipelines to automate your workflows.