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| author | Mayra Cabrera <mcabrera@gitlab.com> | 2018-03-09 09:39:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Achilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com> | 2018-03-09 09:39:32 +0000 |
| commit | f01ca6dd804746e29d4a9cfdbfb4476870792de6 (patch) | |
| tree | c1410e7059d6163f736a11edc7dca1083a668ccc | |
| parent | 92e119859d40145267e3a5fcb259df69090a1e72 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-f01ca6dd804746e29d4a9cfdbfb4476870792de6.tar.gz | |
Add a note about persistent images for auto devops deployments
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diff --git a/doc/topics/autodevops/index.md b/doc/topics/autodevops/index.md index 5f5ba2b69bc..ec091549c05 100644 --- a/doc/topics/autodevops/index.md +++ b/doc/topics/autodevops/index.md @@ -309,6 +309,18 @@ enable them. You can make use of [environment variables](#helm-chart-variables) to automatically scale your pod replicas. +It's important to note that when a project is deployed to a Kubernetes cluster, +it relies on a Docker image that has been pushed to the +[GitLab Container Registry](../../user/project/container_registry.md). Kubernetes +fetches this image and uses it to run the application. If the project is public, +the image can be accessed by Kubernetes without any authentication, allowing us +to have deployments more usable. If the project is private/internal, the +Registry requires credentials to pull the image. Currently, this is addressed +by providing `CI_JOB_TOKEN` as the password that can be used, but this token will +no longer be valid as soon as the deployment job finishes. This means that +Kubernetes can run the application, but in case it should be restarted or +executed somewhere else, it cannot be accessed again. + ### Auto Monitoring NOTE: **Note:** |