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Creating a new pipeline

Prerequisites for creating a pipeline​

  1. A cluster and a project should exist.
  2. To fetch your repositories, there should be a source code integration.

Create Pipeline​

To create a pipeline for a project, Go to Humalect console's dashboard -> Click on Projects -> Click on Pipelines button next to your choice of project -> Click on Create New Pipeline button on top right on the pipelines page.

create-pipeline

At the top, you will see Project, Cluster and Repository being used in the current pipeline.

To create the pipeline, follow the steps below:-

  1. Assign a sub-domain to your pipeline. This sub-domain will be used to host all deployments for this pipeline.
  2. Select a domain for your pipeline. This list of domains can be edited on the cluster information page for your cluster.
  3. Enter the Port Number on which your code runs.
  4. Select the branch that you want to deploy in this pipeline
  5. Select the environment which you want to use for all the deployments of this pipeline
  6. Choose whether you want CD enabled or not. CD stands for Continuous Deployment, all your commits to this branch will be auto-deployed if this is checked.
  7. (optional) If you want to use a datasource created in previous steps in your pipeline, select it from the Select Datasource drop down. connect-datasource

If you wish to connect any datasource to the pipeline, you can select it and add it's respective connection string in the environment variables in the next step. We currently support three datasources namely: Redis, MongoDB and PostgreSQL. To know more about datasources, visit Datasource.

  1. Next, enter the environment variables for your pipeline. You can either add it one by one or use Env Format tab and paste your .env file directly. These environment variables will be securely stored in vault/secret-manager in your cloud account. Humalect doesn't access your secrets.

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There is also a provision to fetch existing environment variables from previously created projects and pipelines by clicking on the Fetch Existing Env Variable button. fetch-button fetch-env-variables

  1. Now you can move on to the advanced settings which give you the access to edit Dockerfile and YAML files.
Dockerfile

We have got you covered in case you are unfamiliar with Docker by providing you with a pre-defined Dockerfile for your source code. You can tweak and edit the Dockerfile as per your requirement on the UI and it will be saved for subsequent runs. dockerfile You can also use Dockerfile directly from your source code repository by clicking on the button Use Docker from code source.

YAML

The platform auto-generates Deployment YAML, Service YAML and Ingress YAML. You can customize them as per your need or use the recommended ones.

YAML

You can also fetch YAML files from your source code repository or from any existing pipeline.

Please ensure that you use the below mentioned variable names if you are editing YAMLs or bringing your own. variables-format

  1. You can click on the checkbox Deploy pipeline on creation and it will automatically deploy your pipeline as soon as it is created.

After you have entered all the required necessities mentioned above, click on the Create Pipeline button at the bottom right.

Verify the subdomain​

After the pipelines has been successfully created, you need to verify the domain and link the domain with load balancer URL/IP in DNS provider settings. Refer the images below.

pipelines-domain

Refresh the status of Subdomain by clicking the ♺ button. If you see a green tickmark ✅, voila!, it's verified, else if its a ❌, follow the below mentioned steps.

note

All the subdomains which are freshly created will be unverified ❌ by default.

pipelines-domain-connect

Add the following record values in the DNS of your domain provider for the following 2 fields:

  1. Domain Name and,
  2. Domain Value.
Domain Name: py-mongo.march.humalect.dev OR *.march.humalect.dev

Domain Value: 20.204.200.195

Return back to Humalect and press the ♺ button to confirm if the subdomain is properly working or not.

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You can also get the DNS URL from the cluster details page and a list of connected domains.

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That's all for now. If you still get into trouble adding or verifying the domains, get in touch with us.

Troubleshooting​

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