Udacity Cloud DevOps Nanodegree Capstone

Introduction

The project rubric required the deployment of a web service to an Amazon EKS Kubernetes taking advantage of the C1/CD capabilities of the Jenkins Automation server

Steps

• Created a Dockerfile that extends from the base nginx image and copied in an index.html from the repository
• Jenkins pipeline defined by a Jenkins file defined in the Github repository. The pipeline steps include
  • Linting the index.html to find any HTML errors
  • Running hadolint to check for syntax errors in the Dockerfile
  • Build a docker image from the Dockerfile and push it to the Docker Hub registry
  • Deploy a docker container with the image from the registry into a cluster of nodes running on AWS EKS
• The kubernetes cluster was deployed to AWS using the eksctl tool to create the required cloudformation stacks.