I recently gave a talk at a local Docker meetup based in Manchester, UK. This blog accompanies that talk. Over the course of this article I hope to give the reader instructions for creating a continuous delivery pipeline that utilises Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and specifically Google Container Engine (GKE).
The tutorial will provide detail for creating your GKE cluster, utilisingKubernetes (k8s) and Docker to spin up a Jenkins container, using k8s to spin up Jenkins build agents, defining the build pipeline as code, creating aspring boot app as a docker container and finally deploying the application with k8s. Phew there is a lot to get through…so buckle in we’re in for the long haul. To help with adoption and helping people play with GCP, the tutorial also outlines GCP project creation and user creation. The only assumption I’ve made is that you’ve signed up to GCP and can access the GCP console.
Read more at James Heggs’ Blog