Pipeline

From commit to production!

My first real pipeline

My setup is built up around usage of a range of simple components:

GitHub for code repository: The code is developed on my local desktop. When I am satisfied, I commit to master branch on GitHub, where GitHub actions grabs the code and does a complete build.
GitHub actions for CI/CD: When code is committed, GitHub Actions kicks in, tests (using pytest) for errors, and if none, the code is built into a container
Crazy-Max' converter: Crazy-Max has managed to package a conversion of x64 (the default runtime available on GitHub) to ARM - which is the instruction set required for Raspberry Pi - and make it available directly. This converts the image to ARM and pushes to Docker Hub
Docker Hub for container registry: I use Docker Hub as a free container registry, and ensure that I don't have hardcoded values in the publicly accessible containers (secrets are applied via the yaml deployment).
Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster as infrastructure backend: I have three RPi4 in a Kubernetes cluster, with one master and two workers. These all share the workload between them, and are surprisingly fast. They also normally run using less than 15 watts in total
Keel.sh for update detection and deployment in Kubernetes: To avoid having to update versions all the time, manually updating and applying yaml files, every time I want to deploy an update, I have installed Keel.sh (by Rusonask), which continuously checks Docker Hub for new updates - if a new version of my containers are ready, it pulls a new version and applies it to the cluster

All in all, I have no subscription fees required for this setup, and the cost of the Kubernetes cluster was less than 3K DKK total - with negligable power costs. I am able to commit and typically between 2 and 5 minutes later, the new version is in production, in a rolling update.

I love this setup - I will update with info properly, either here or on github. Until later, cheers!