With GitLab CI it is incredibly easy to build a Hugo website (like mine); you can even host it there. But in my case I use AWS S3 and Cloudfront because it is cheap and easy to setup. The CI pipeline to build and upload the static website is also straightforward with the following .gitlab-ci.yml: variables: GIT_SUBMODULE_STRATEGY: recursive stages: - build - upload build: stage: build image: monachus/hugo script: - hugo version - hugo only: - master artifacts: paths: - ....

Now that I have a number of pipelines running I would like to deploy these to Kubernetes through a service account. that is quite simple. As an admin user provide resources such as: the namespaces, optionally with limited resources; an isolated service account with restricted access to one namespace; an encoded config file to be used by the Gitlab pipeline. Service Account with permissions The following file serviceaccount.yaml creates the service account, a role, and attach that role to that account:...

Earlier I posted about my hobby cluster on GKE which I want to keep under an affordable budget. Unfortunately Google Cloud will start charging a management fee from june 2k20 of 10$ct per hour (=$73/mnth) just like AWS. If they unilaterally change the rules, let’s get out of here! I’m thinking of moving to a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS with spot instances: 1 x 1GiB master-node (t2.micro spot instance, $2....

Gitlab-CI is awesomelishiously simple. Let’s assume you have a Terraform Gitlab project with a folder structure like mine: README.md .gitignore terraform │ main.tf │ outputs.tf └──variables.tf You can find a .gitignore example here. Since we can provide our credentials via environment variables, the provider can look like: provider "aws" { version = ">= 2.28.1" } In the Gitlab project page, go to “Settings” > “CI/CD” > “Variables”, and set the following variables:...

In this post I demonstrate a simple container deployment setup; a Jenkins pipeline to Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and Fargate on Elastic Container Service (ECS). I assume you have Jenkins running, with a pipeline and Git repo webhook tied to it. Besides the default Jenkins plugins, you’ll need the Pipeline Utiliy Steps. Also I assume you already have a ECR repository, a ECS Fargate cluster and an AWS service account with credentials....