Platform Engineering on Kubernetes

4 Environment pipelines: Deploying cloud-native applications

This chapter covers

• Deploying produced artifacts into environments
• Using environment pipelines and GitOps to manage environments
• Using Argo CD with Helm to deliver software efficiently

This chapter introduces the concept of environment pipelines. We cover the steps required to deploy the artifacts created by service pipelines into concrete running environments all the way to production. We will look into a common practice that has emerged in the cloud-native space called GitOps, which allows us to define and configure our environments using a Git repository. Finally, we will look at a project called Argo CD, which implements a GitOps approach for managing applications on top of Kubernetes. ...