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Building a CI/CD System for Private GKE Clusters with Google Cloud Deploy

Priyath Gregory
7 min readDec 28, 2024

Originally published on priyathgregory.dev.

A robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD) pipeline plays a crucial role in any development ecosystem, introducing dependability, efficiency, and adaptability to your integration and delivery workflows.

As part of our company’s ongoing re-architectural efforts, we recently engineered a CICD pipeline tailored to seamlessly support the deployment of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) workloads. The system was designed with the following criteria in mind:

  • Separate build and deployment steps
  • A single control point to manage the release lifecycle
  • Support workload deployment into private GKE clusters across different GCP projects. (eg: staging & production)
  • Environment promotion and rollback support for releases.
  • Observability

A high-level visualisation of the final architecture is shown below

The Build Step

Priyath Gregory
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