Project structure

Tools

• Terraform
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Jenkins

deploy backend application on kubernetes cluster using CI/CD Jenkins pipeline

First create infrastructure using terraform

Infrastructure for my project using terraform

Decribe instructions for initiate the project

terraform init 
terraform validate #to make sure there no syntax errors
terraform plan #to make sure everything will be created
terraform graph | dot -Tsvg > graph.svg
terraform apply #to apply my infrastructure on cloud provider 

Deploy and configure Jenkins on the created K8s cluster

Duild jenkins

Build image for jenkins using Dockerfile by

  docker build -t omarkorey/myjenkins:V1 .
  docker push omarkorey/myjenkins:V1 

Dockerhub jenkins image repository: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/omarkorety/myjenkins

Deploy jenkins and Loadbalancer service in cluster

Build image for jenkins using Dockerfile by

kubectl create -f deployment.yaml

Project requirements

Use separate namespace for Jenkins's deployment and application's deployment

kubectl create namespace Jenkins
kubectl create namespace myppp

Use github webhook

project final screenshot

My appplication repo

https://github.com/omarkorety/simple-app

My application link

http://35.229.161.81:5000/

Lessons Learned

I learned how to configure kubernetes cluster on GCP,acquired experiences on GCP platform and learned how to use all the tools together for development life cycle