GitOps and Serverless CI/CD with OpenShift

What's In This Demo?

The puprose of this demo is to:

• Deploy shared CI/CD infrastructure in an OpenShift cluster, such as:
  • Sonatype Nexus - Maven artifact repository.
  • SonarQube - Static code analysis and CVE reporting.
  • Argo CD - GitOps lifecycle management, provided by OpenShift GitOps.
  • Tekton - Serverless CI/CD, provided by OpenShift Pipelines.
• Use GitOps repositories to:
  • Create serverless pipelines.
  • Provision and configure application environments (dev/prod)
• Demonstrate the ability to use notifications from git repository managers such as Gitea, Github, GitLab, Bitbucket to trigger new builds.
• Manually start a build with a "pipeline run" custom resource.

What You Will Need

Cluster Admin access to an OpenShift 4.9+ cluster. This has demo has been tested with:

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10
• Azure Red Hat OpenShift (OpenShift 4.9)

What You Will Do

This demo is deployed in stages:

• Install OpenShift GitOps operator.
• Install Gitea Operator and instance.
• Install OpenShift Pipelines Operator.
• Use the default Argo CD instance in the openshift-gitops namespace to:
  • Create the projects/namespaces required for the demo.
  • Configure RBAC for pipelines and Argo CD.
  • Deploy an Argo CD instance for Developers to use.
• Use Developers Argo CD to deploy common tooling (Nexus and SonarQube)
• Use Developers Argo CD to create pipelines and application configuration.
• Kick off a pipeline run!

Getting Started

Select the version of OpenShift you are using to see how to install the OpenShift GitOps Operator:

• **Next: ** Initial Demo Setup