---
date: 2019-07-17T00:00:00+01:00
title: Kubernetes-Rancher CI/CD Pipeline
author: pcdummy
tags:
  - HOWTO
  - Kubernetes
  - Rancher
  - CI/CD
  - My Blog
---
Today I moved my [gohugo.io](https://gohugo.io/) blog from a lxd hosting to our Kubernetes -dev Cluster at the [Webmeisterei](https://webmeisterei.com).

We have our own [Gitlab](https://git.webmeisterei.com) so and we run our own registry on the -dev Cluster, I thought it will be easy to do so but it wasn't that easy and I lost about 8 Hours until I found out that had to open the required Ports on the Firewall :).

See this works.
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#### Tools in use

- [Rancher](https://rancher.com/) 2.x for Kubernetes with RBAC, Metrics, Logging and much more.
- [Gitlab](https://about.gitlab.com/) on-premises alternative to github.com
- [Harbor](https://goharbor.io/) not yet in use but will be soon our container registry
- [cert-manager](https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager)
- [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/) Let's Encrypt

#### The Docker Container

I use a [multi-stage build](https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-build/) to generate the page in a container and serve a copy of the page after in a nginx container.

See this [Dockerfile](https://git.webmeisterei.com/jochum/rene.jochums.at/blob/master/Dockerfile)

```bash
# Build public with hugo
FROM jguyomard/hugo-builder:latest

COPY . /build

WORKDIR /build

RUN hugo -b https://rene.jochums.at -v -t persona

# Copy to a nginx container
FROM nginx:1.17-alpine

COPY docker/nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/
COPY docker/nginx/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/

# This is important "COPY --from=0" line where --from=0 means copy from the first container.
COPY --from=0 /build/public /var/www/rene.jochums.at
```

#### The Deployment

With lots of try-and-error testing I got this [deployment.yaml](https://git.webmeisterei.com/jochum/rene.jochums.at/blob/master/deployment.yaml) together.

Its important that you have to add the registry to your Project first, in this case **registry.dev.wmk8s.com**.


#### And the pipeline itself

The last step after the container and the deployment was to create a .rancher-pipeline.yml in my repo, I used Rancher -> Cluster dev -> Project -> Workloads -> Pipelines to generate it.

```yaml
stages:
- name: Build
  steps:
  - publishImageConfig:
      dockerfilePath: ./Dockerfile
      buildContext: .
      tag: pcdummy/renejochumsat:latest
      pushRemote: true
      registry: registry.dev.wmk8s.com
- name: Deploy
  steps:
  - applyYamlConfig:
      path: ./deployment.yaml
timeout: 60
notification:
  recipients:
  - recipient: rene@webmeisterei.com
    notifier: local:n-mtzwd
  condition:
  - Success
  - Changed
  - Failed
```

#### If it doesn't trigger

Look at [this](https://forums.rancher.com/t/pipeline-not-triggering/12691/5) if it doesn't trigger your build.