Deployment Automation
Table of Contents
Overview
Establish automated deployment pipelines that safely and reliably move applications across development, staging, and production environments with minimal manual intervention and risk.
When to Use
- Continuous deployment to Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code deployment
- Multi-environment promotion
- Blue-green deployment strategies
- Canary release management
- Infrastructure provisioning
- Automated rollback procedures
Quick Start
Minimal working example:
# helm/Chart.yaml
apiVersion: v2
name: myapp
description: My awesome application
type: application
version: 1.0.0
# helm/values.yaml
replicaCount: 3
image:
repository: ghcr.io/myorg/myapp
pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
tag: "1.0.0"
service:
type: ClusterIP
port: 80
targetPort: 3000
resources:
requests:
memory: "256Mi"
cpu: "250m"
limits:
memory: "512Mi"
cpu: "500m"
autoscaling:
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)Reference Guides
Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:
| Guide | Contents |
|---|---|
| Helm Deployment Chart | Helm Deployment Chart |
| GitHub Actions Deployment Workflow | GitHub Actions Deployment Workflow |
| ArgoCD Deployment | ArgoCD Deployment |
| Blue-Green Deployment | Blue-Green Deployment |
Best Practices
✅ DO
- Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm)
- Implement GitOps workflows
- Use blue-green deployments
- Implement canary releases
- Automate rollback procedures
- Test deployments in staging first
- Use feature flags for gradual rollout
- Monitor deployment health
- Document deployment procedures
- Implement approval gates for production
- Version infrastructure code
- Use environment parity
❌ DON'T
- Deploy directly to production
- Skip testing in staging
- Use manual deployment scripts
- Deploy without rollback plan
- Ignore health checks
- Use hardcoded configuration
- Deploy during critical hours
- Skip pre-deployment validation
- Forget to backup before deploy
- Deploy from local machines