Summary

Coming into this chapter, we hadn't spent much time on deploying applications. We wanted to close things out with a brief introduction to application deployment and automation. We learned about pipelines, how they are built, and how they run on a Kubernetes cluster. We explored the process of building a platform by deploying GitLab for source control, built out a Tekton pipeline to work in a GitOps model, and used ArgoCD to make the GitOps model a reality. Finally, we automated the entire process with OpenUnison.

Using the information in this chapter should give you direction as to how you want to build your own platform. Using the practical examples in this chapter will help you map the requirements in your organization to the technology needed to automate your infrastructure. The platform we built in this chapter is far from complete. It should give you a map for planning your own platform that matches your needs.

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