Skills Union Event - The Why, What and How of DevOps

Brief

This repository is used in a free workshop conducted by Skills Union to help the general public who are interested in career transition to become DevOps Engineer to gain hands on experience with DevOps CICD Pipeline.

Platforms & Tools

• Node
• GitHub
• Circle CI
• Heroku

Step by step guide

Step 1 - Account Creations

1. Create a GitHub account
2. Create a Circle CI account via GitHub skillsunion
3. Create a Heroku account

Step 2 - Fork repository

Fork this repository. To verify fork successful, you should see the following URL:

• https://github.com/<your username>/simple_devops

Step 3 - Configure Circle CI

Upon signing in with GitHub account, Circle CI will show a list of repositories belonged to you. Choose the simple_devops repository.

Step 4 - Setup Heroku App

You are to create an App so that Circle CI can deploy the application to. You should name the App based on your preference (recommendation: simple_devops_<your name>). The App name is globally unique.

Step 5 - Add Environmental Variables to Circle CI

There are two environment variables to be added in Circle CI. Namely,

• HEROKU_API_KEY
• HEROKU_APP_NAME

The HEROKU_API_KEY can be found in your Heroku account settings.

The HEROKU_APP_NAME is the name of the App in Heroku that you created. Recommended: simple_devops_<your name>.

Step 6 - Inspect the Pipeline Script

The pipeline script has been provided by the instructor and you can view the file here. This script resides in the GitHub repository that you have forked.

The instructor would explain what the script do in the session.