⚠️ The kubefirst exploration applications metaphor has been merged into one version, and moved inside the gitops-template repository.
metaphor is an example application which serves as a demonstration space for how your applications hook into your infrastructure and tooling.
metaphor is deployed to all of your environments just like your other applications will be. This means that when you make changes to your ci/cd, you can test it out using an application that works just like your applications do.
The deployed instances of metaphor are available at:
- https://metaphor-development.<AWS_HOSTED_ZONE_NAME>
- https://metaphor-staging.<AWS_HOSTED_ZONE_NAME>
- https://metaphor-production.<AWS_HOSTED_ZONE_NAME>
metaphor currently demonstrates the following capabilities:
- building a docker container
- publishing a docker container to ecr
- publishing a prerelease helm chart
- gitops delivery of metaphor to different namespaces
- a release process that publishes a release chart and patches the chart version to prepare for the next release
- secrets sourced from vault
- certificate management using cert-manager
- automatic dns management using external-dns
metaphor has 5 ci stages defined in its .gitlab-ci.yml file.
- branch: branch jobs run when your branch pushes to origin and report status to your merge requests
- publish: publishes your docker container to ecr and publishes your prerelease chart to chartmuseum
- development: sets the desired chart version for development
- staging: sets the desired chart version for staging
- release: publishes a release chart, sets the desired chart version for production, and patches chart in source for the next release
argocd is the gitops tool responsible for autosyncing the desired state in each environment. It follows a pull model so our CI/CD ecosystem doesn't need to know how to connect to our kubernetes clusters.
We have metaphor set up to run its automation by invoking argo-workflows. Those submitted workflows can be found in the .argo directory of this repository.