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diff --git a/doc/user/project/deploy_boards.md b/doc/user/project/deploy_boards.md index 72695580d9d..368417ac00b 100644 --- a/doc/user/project/deploy_boards.md +++ b/doc/user/project/deploy_boards.md @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ of the pods in the deployment. Developers and other teammates can view the progress and status of a rollout, pod by pod, in the workflow they already use without any need to access Kubernetes. +NOTE: +If you have a Kubernetes cluster, you can Auto Deploy applications to production +environments by using [Auto DevOps](../../topics/autodevops/index.md). + ## Overview With Deploy Boards you can gain more insight into deploys with benefits such as: @@ -71,7 +75,7 @@ specific environment, there are a lot of use cases. To name a few: To display the Deploy Boards for a specific [environment](../../ci/environments/index.md) you should: -1. Have [defined an environment](../../ci/environments/index.md#defining-environments) with a deploy stage. +1. Have [defined an environment](../../ci/environments/index.md) with a deploy stage. 1. Have a Kubernetes cluster up and running. @@ -86,11 +90,11 @@ To display the Deploy Boards for a specific [environment](../../ci/environments/ [`kubernetes`](https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/kubernetes.html) executor. 1. Configure the [Kubernetes integration](clusters/index.md) in your project for the cluster. The Kubernetes namespace is of particular note as you need it - for your deployment scripts (exposed by the `KUBE_NAMESPACE` environment variable). + for your deployment scripts (exposed by the `KUBE_NAMESPACE` deployment variable). 1. Ensure Kubernetes annotations of `app.gitlab.com/env: $CI_ENVIRONMENT_SLUG` and `app.gitlab.com/app: $CI_PROJECT_PATH_SLUG` are applied to the deployments, replica sets, and pods, where `$CI_ENVIRONMENT_SLUG` and - `$CI_PROJECT_PATH_SLUG` are the values of the CI variables. This is so we can + `$CI_PROJECT_PATH_SLUG` are the values of the CI/CD variables. This is so we can lookup the proper environment in a cluster/namespace which may have more than one. These resources should be contained in the namespace defined in the Kubernetes service setting. You can use an [Auto deploy](../../topics/autodevops/stages.md#auto-deploy) `.gitlab-ci.yml` @@ -159,6 +163,6 @@ version of your application. ## Further reading - [GitLab Auto deploy](../../topics/autodevops/stages.md#auto-deploy) -- [GitLab CI/CD environment variables](../../ci/variables/README.md) +- [GitLab CI/CD variables](../../ci/variables/README.md) - [Environments and deployments](../../ci/environments/index.md) - [Kubernetes deploy example](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-examples/kubernetes-deploy) |