How to run complete, disposable apps on Kubernetes for Staging and Development What if you could rapidly spin up new environments in a matter of minutes entirely from scratch, triggered simply by the push of a button or automatically for every Pull Request or Branch. Would that be cool? That’s what we thought too! Companies running complex microservices architectures need a better way to do QA, prototype new features & discuss changes. We want to show that there’s a simpler way to collaborate and it’s available today if you’re running Kubernetes. Tune in to learn how you can assemble 100% Open Source components with a CodeFresh CI/CD Pipeline to deploy your full stack for any branch and expose it on a unique URL that you can share. Not only that, we ensure that it’s fully integrated with CI/CD so console expertise is not required to push updates. Empower designers and front-end developers to push code freely. Hand it over to your sales team so they can demo upcoming features for customers! The possibilities are truly unlimited. =)

1. Unlimited Staging
Environments
How to run complete, disposable apps on Kubernetes
for Staging and Development
<hello@cloudposse.com>
https://cloudposse.com/

2. TL;DR
● My Background
● What/Why/How of Unlimited Environments
● Live Demo
● GitHub Links for All the Tools
● Q&A, AMA
30
With Tons of screenshots!

3. Who is this guy?
● Former Director of Cloud Architecture, CBS Interactive in San Francisco
● Ran Operations for TV.com, Metacritic.com, and Clicker.com
● Founded Cloud Posse, DevOps Professional Services
● Used AWS since 2006 (Private Beta)
● Backend Software Developer at Heart
● Took ~2 year sabbatical; visited ~30 countries

4. What we do best...
Cloud Migrations (e.g. Heroku → AWS)
CI/CD Pipelines
Automated Deployments

5. What?
Rapidly Spin up Environments from Scratch
in Minutes triggered by at the push of a
or automatically for every Pull Request or Branch

6. Features
Deploy Full Stack for Any Branch
Fully Integrated with CI/CD
Every app has a unique URL you can share
No console necessary
GitOps Friendly, Version Pinned Releases
(or combo)

7. Why?
Better way to Prototype new features & discuss changes
Simpler Collaboratoration, Testing and Debugging of Microservices
Perfect for Customer Demos (e.g. for sales teams)
Useful for Integration Tests on apps representing any GitHub branch
“Generally Awesome” QA

8. How?
Using GitHub Branches & Tags
...with a CodeFresh CI/CD Pipeline
...to build Helm Packages Containers
...then deploy on Kubernetes
...in isolated/disposable Namespaces
...exposed via Ingress & DNS
Sem ver + git ref

9. Demo Time

10. Deploy a Crazy Microservices Architecture

11. One Namespace per Branch or Epic

12. GitHub Build Status Integration

13. And Even Slack Notifications
Ready for QA !

14. The Ultimate Status Symbols
Deployment Badge
(Image)

15. See it in action

16. Game Plan
Squash a Bug
Show Build Pipeline
Trash the Environment

17. The CI/CD Pipeline
Docker Build
Generate Versions
Build Helm Charts
Add GitHub Status Link
Notify QA Team
Deploy to Cluster
CI/CD
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18. The Nitty Gritty
Deploy Chart Pinned to Version
Generate Versions
Push Charts Pinned to Versions

19. Future Work
Automatically Destroy Staging Environments
(e.g. on merge to master, closed PR)
Click it, or ticket

20. Inspiration & Prior Art
Heroku Review Apps
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/github-integration-review-apps
Fourchette (Deprecated)
https://github.com/rainforestapp/fourchette

21. Our Open Source Prescription
Send Beautiful Slack Notifications
https://github.com/cloudposse/slack-notifier
Add Commit Status Links (e.g. link to environment)
https://github.com/cloudposse/github-status-updater
Easily Build Charts and Push to Repos
https://github.com/cloudposse/build-harness
Install Helm Charts from Private Repos
https://github.com/cloudposse/cf-plugin-helm
Self-hosted Helm Chart Registry (we’re a big contributor)
https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/incubator/chartmuseum
Socks Shop (by WeaveWorks)
https://github.com/cloudposse-demo/

22. https://calendly.com/cloudposse
hello@cloudposse.com
30 Minute
Free Consultation
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