This drone kubernetes plugin does the equivalent of:

kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml

The advantages of this plugin is that the deployment.yaml file can be a template file. We are able to substitute values like {{ build.number }} inside the file so you can update docker image names.

Basic example:

pipeline:
  deploy:
     image: vallard/drone-kube
     template: deployment.yaml

Example configuration with non-default namespace:

pipeline:
  kube:
    image: vallard/drone-kube
    template: deployment.yaml
+   namespace: mynamespace

You can also specify the server in the configuration as well. It could alternatively be specified as an environment variable as shown in the next section.

pipeline:
  kubernetes:
    image: vallard/drone-kube
    template: deployment.yaml
+   namespace: mynamespace
+   server: https://10.93.234.28:6433

Template Reference

You can substitute the following values between {{ }} in your deployment template

repo.owner

repository owner

repo.name

repository name

build.status

build status type enumeration, either success or failure

build.event

build event type enumeration, one of push, pull_request, tag, deployment

build.number

build number

build.commit

git sha for current commit

build.branch

git branch for current commit

build.tag

git tag for current commit

build.ref

git ref for current commit

build.author

git author for current commit

build.link

link the the build results in drone

build.created

unix timestamp for build creation

build.started

unix timestamp for build started

Template Function Reference

uppercasefirst

converts the first letter of a string to uppercase

uppercase

converts a string to uppercase

lowercase

converts a string to lowercase. Example {{lowercase build.author}}

datetime

converts a unix timestamp to a date time string. Example {{datetime build.started}}

success

returns true if the build is successful

failure

returns true if the build is failed

truncate

returns a truncated string to n characters. Example {{truncate build.sha 8}}

urlencode

returns a url encoded string

since

returns a duration string between now and the given timestamp. Example {{since build.started}}

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