Getting started with pipelines Enterprise

Requirements

Feature toggle

The Pipelines feature can be enabled or disabled by setting the enablePipelines flag in the values for the Weave GitOps Enterprise Helm Chart.

• You have configured Weave GitOps Enterprise RBAC for pipelines

Define a pipeline

A pipeline allows you to define the route your application is taking in order to make it to production. There are three main concepts playing in a pipeline:

• the application to deliver
• the environments that your app will go through in its way to production (general)
• the deployment targets or the clusters that each environment has

You can define a delivery pipeline using a Pipeline custom resource. An example of how it looks for an application podinfo is shown below.

apiVersion: pipelines.weave.works/v1alpha1
kind: Pipeline
metadata:
  name: podinfo-02
  namespace: default
spec:
  appRef:
    apiVersion: helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v2beta1
    kind: HelmRelease
    name: podinfo
  environments:
    - name: dev
      targets:
        - namespace: podinfo-02-dev
          clusterRef:
            kind: GitopsCluster
            name: dev
            namespace: flux-system
    - name: test
      targets:
        - namespace: podinfo-02-qa
          clusterRef:
            kind: GitopsCluster
            name: dev
            namespace: flux-system
        - namespace: podinfo-02-perf
          clusterRef:
            kind: GitopsCluster
            name: dev
            namespace: flux-system
    - name: prod
      targets:
        - namespace: podinfo-02-prod
          clusterRef:
            kind: GitopsCluster
            name: prod
            namespace: flux-system

In the previous example, podinfo application is delivered to a traditional pipeline composed by dev, qa, perf and production environments. Each environment is backed by a GitopsCluster deployment target.

For more details about the spec of a pipeline see here

View the list of pipelines

Once flux has created your pipeline you can navigate to the pipelines view to see it.

Pipeline list view show the list of pipelines you have access to. For each pipeline, a simplified view of the pipeline is shown with the application Type and Environments it goes through.

View the details of a pipeline

Once you have selected a pipeline from the list, you will navigate to its details view. In pipeline details view you could view the current status of your application by environment and deployment target.