Setting up Jenkins and the CI/CD pipeline
In Chapter 15, Orchestration with Kubernetes, we manually performed the entire process of deploying authentication services. This process involved pulling the code from GitHub, creating Docker images, pushing those images to Docker Hub, and deploying the services into Minikube. This process is time-consuming, prone to human error, and not scalable for frequent updates or larger teams. To address these issues, we will implement automation to streamline this workflow using CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, which will provide us with the following capabilities:
- Automate code integration: Automatically pull the latest code from GitHub whenever changes are merged into the
mainbranch - Build and test: Use Maven to compile the application and run tests to maintain code quality
- Containerize and push: Build Docker images for the updated services and push them to Docker Hub
- Deploy: Deploy the updated authentication services seamlessly...
