Deployment of a create-react-app application in AWS through a Jenkins pipeline using Docker and Kubernetes

Stack

Software

• NodeJS
• ReactJS
• Webpack
• Babel

CI/CD

• Github
• Jenkins
• AWS cli
• eksctl
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Overview

Deployment

• Create a new IAM profile for the deployment on AWS.
• Create an Ubuntu 20.04 Server t2.medium EC2 instance, SSH into it and install Jenkins, eksctl, kubectl, docker, awscli
• Configure Jenkins with aws-credentials, docker-credentials, github-credentials, the requires plugins to run pipeline like pipeline-aws and create a new pipeline that pull your github repo and use the Jenkinsfile inside it to deploy your react app.
• Run your pipeline
• Browser the External Ip of k8s loadBalancer given in the logs of the pipeline
• Make sure to reload your browser whithout cache (Ctrl + F5) after a change in the app