Commit Virtual 2021: Automate Container Image Creation and Deploy to Kubernetes Clusters

Speaker: Ivan Tarin

Building container images manually or with scripts means lots of moving variables to maintain and keep secure. However, using open source and enterprise technologies like Cloud Native Buildpacks, kpack, or VMware Tanzu Build Service, teams can use automation in the container build process to reduce human error, increase security, and speed up software delivery.

Removing the need to build and maintain containers by hand and integrating automated container building technology into your existing pipelines means builds that take minutes, not days or weeks. Best of all, it transforms your pipeline into a Platform that allows developers to focus on writing and submitting code, not on building container images.

In this demo, we will showcase:

The benefits of integrating automated container creation into your workflows or CI/CD
Packaging containers with Cloud Native Buildpacks and kpack
Triggering the automated packaging of a Spring application into a ready-made OCI-compliant container image right from your GitLab pipeline
Deploying a container image to a VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) cluster hosted on AWS infrastructure