In this blog post, I want to explain how to automate the deployment of a microservice using a delivery pipeline on IBM Cloud.
Maybe you already know Niklas, Harald, and I made the project called Cloud Native Starter. That project includes a Hands-on workshop that is called “Build a Java Microservice and deploy the Microservice to Kubernetes on IBM Cloud.” In Lab 4, you have to deploy the Authors Microservice to Kubernetes on IBM Cloud. Sometimes we have limited time in workshops. The limited-time is the reason why we want to reduce the manual effort for students in a workshop to a minimum, therefore, we took the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery, and I created a repeatable way with minimal human interaction. The delivery pipeline contains sequences of stages, which retrieve inputs and run jobs such as builds, and deployments.