Posts tagged with continuous deployment

• Deploying with Helm v2.0

  Sep 1, 2018

  In the series with Helm and Continuous Deployment nine months ago, I used helm to deploy the application to the kubernetes cluster. To be able to do that from the CI server, I had to make a workaround. I had punched a hole in the cluster with a NodePort service for Tiller. This allows pretty much anyone to reach Tiller (the server side component of Helm) and interact with it. Great for a demo blog post, but not so great for security.

• Flyway migrations and Continuous Deployment

  Aug 25, 2018

  Flyway is a tool that allows you to version your database schema changes. In this post I explain a bit how we use it at work (so far), in the context of automated deployments and GitHub Flow branching model.

• Waiting for the correct version after deployment

  Dec 29, 2017

  In this post, I’ll implement a post deployment check that waits until the application is running with the expected version. The first step is to make the application aware of its version. The easiest way to do that in our setup is with an environment variable. We’ll modify the deployment template of the Helm chart:

• CD with Helm part 5: versioned artifacts

  Dec 2, 2017

  In the previous post we created the Helm chart for our hello world blog-helm application. The Helm chart contains all the information we need to deploy our application to a Kubernetes cluster. But so far, we always deploy the latest version. In a CD setup, we’d like to be able to deploy any version, from any feature branch, at any given point in time, to any environment (DTAP). Let’s start by looking at versioning.

• CD at scale: the success story of a big rewrite

  May 22, 2017

  Back in March, I gave a presentation at the Continuous Delivery Amsterdam meetup. You can watch the video here. The title is “CD at scale: the success story of a big rewrite”. It’s about how we applied CD in a big project that involved complete rewrite of our storefronts at work.

• Versioning Deployed Web Applications

  Nov 9, 2013

  In this post, I’m going to discuss the setup I have for deploying an ASP.NET application in Linux.

• Continuous Deployment with a Windows Service project

  Oct 25, 2011

  For a long time now I had a long running process here at home implemented as a Windows Console application. The application was quite stable, but from time to time I had to fix a bug or add a new feature. Before deploying a new version, I would have to login to the deployment machine where the application was running and terminate it, otherwise deployment would fail trying to copy over the new files. Quite tedious. And then I would have to start it again, as soon as the deployment server had finished its job. I like to automate this kind of things.