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Building a simple CI/CD pipeline for local testing using Go, Docker, Minikube and a Bash script

Shivan Moodley on December 24, 2019

Wat In this article I will detail the thought process and implementation of an automated build and deployment pipeline that I wrote to r...

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jaedle • Dec 26 '19

As a small reference to the book “The Unicorn Project”: you are following the ideal of locality and simplicity:
Test your code locally and with fast feedback in a production like environment: great job!

Could you provide a repo with your article content?

I would recommend some refactorings, this is very hard to read for me:

if [[ $1 = "build" ]]; then
    if [[ $2 = "docker" ]]; then
        if [[ $3 = "deploy" ]]; then

Shivan Moodley • Dec 26 '19

I haven't read the Unicorn Project, but I might have to now!

You can find the code here github.com/cishiv/cicdexample

What refactoring would you recommend for readability? Feel free to open a PR on the repo if you want 😊

Thanks for taking the time to read!

TheManuel0 • Mar 16 '20 • Edited

really good post, and really intuitive also, but i got a question, what does the command "buildDocker" stands for? as it always output "command not found" on my terminal

Edit, i guess is a "build docker" command alias

Gilad Sharaby • Dec 25 '19

Thanks for the hard work you've put into this post.

There are several very popular open source tools for this problem.

look into this post -
medium.com/containers-101/the-ulti...

my personal favourite is skaffold, which has all of these features built-in and a lot more...
good luck

Shivan Moodley • Dec 25 '19 • Edited

I actually drew some inspiration from similar tools - they're really cool and allow for far more customization. This was more an exercise in 'seeing if I could do it'. Thanks for reading!