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stage: Configure
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group: Configure
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
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# Tutorial: Use Auto DevOps to deploy an application to Google Kubernetes Engine **(FREE)**
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In this tutorial, we'll help you to get started with [Auto DevOps](index.md)
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through an example of how to deploy an application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
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You are using the GitLab native Kubernetes integration, so you don't need
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to create a Kubernetes cluster manually using the Google Cloud Platform console.
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You are creating and deploying an application that you create from a GitLab template.
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These instructions also work for self-managed GitLab instances.
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Ensure your own [runners are configured](../../ci/runners/index.md) and
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[Google OAuth is enabled](../../integration/google.md).
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To deploy a project to Google Kubernetes Engine, follow the steps below:
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1. [Configure your Google account](#configure-your-google-account)
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1. [Create a new project from a template](#create-a-new-project-from-a-template)
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1. [Create a Kubernetes cluster from GitLab](#create-a-kubernetes-cluster-from-gitlab)
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1. [Install Ingress](#install-ingress)
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1. [Configure your base domain](#configure-your-base-domain)
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1. [Enable Auto DevOps](#enable-auto-devops-optional)
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1. [Deploy the application](#deploy-the-application)
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## Configure your Google account
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Before creating and connecting your Kubernetes cluster to your GitLab project,
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you need a [Google Cloud Platform account](https://console.cloud.google.com).
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Sign in with an existing Google account, such as the one you use to access Gmail
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or Google Drive, or create a new one.
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1. Follow the steps described in the ["Before you begin" section](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/quickstart#before-you-begin)
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of the Kubernetes Engine documentation to enable the required APIs and related services.
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1. Ensure you've created a [billing account](https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/manage-billing-account)
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with Google Cloud Platform.
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NOTE:
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Every new Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account receives [$300 in credit](https://console.cloud.google.com/freetrial),
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and in partnership with Google, GitLab is able to offer an additional $200 for new
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GCP accounts to get started with the GitLab integration with Google Kubernetes Engine.
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[Follow this link](https://cloud.google.com/partners/partnercredit/?pcn_code=0014M00001h35gDQAQ#contact-form)
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and apply for credit.
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## Create a new project from a template
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Use a GitLab project template to get started. As the name suggests,
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those projects provide a bare-bones application built on some well-known frameworks.
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1. On the top bar in GitLab, select the plus icon (**{plus-square}**), and select
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**New project/repository**.
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1. Go to the **Create from template** tab, where you can choose a Ruby on
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Rails, Spring, or NodeJS Express project.
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For this tutorial, use the Ruby on Rails template.
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1. Give your project a name, optionally a description, and make it public so that
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you can take advantage of the features available in the
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[GitLab Ultimate plan](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/).
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1. Select **Create project**.
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Now that you've created a project, create the Kubernetes cluster
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to deploy this project to.
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## Create a Kubernetes cluster from GitLab
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1. On your project's landing page, select the button **Add Kubernetes cluster**.
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1. On the **Kubernetes clusters** page, select the **Create a new cluster** option from the **Actions** dropdown menu.
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1. On the **Connect a Kubernetes cluster** page, select **Google GKE**.
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1. Connect with your Google account, and select **Allow** to allow access to your
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Google account. (This authorization request is only displayed the first time
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you connect GitLab with your Google account.)
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After authorizing access, the **Connect a Kubernetes cluster** page
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is displayed.
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1. In the **Enter your Kubernetes cluster certificate details** section, provide
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details about your cluster:
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- **Kubernetes cluster name**
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- **Environment scope** - Leave this field unchanged.
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- **Google Cloud Platform project** - Select a project. When you
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[configured your Google account](#configure-your-google-account), a project
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should have already been created for you.
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- **Zone** - The [region/zone](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/) to
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create the cluster in.
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- **Number of nodes**
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- **Machine type** - For more information about
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[machine types](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types), see Google's documentation.
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- **Enable Cloud Run for Anthos** - Select this checkbox to use the
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[Cloud Run](../../user/project/clusters/add_gke_clusters.md#cloud-run-for-anthos),
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Istio, and HTTP Load Balancing add-ons for this cluster.
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- **GitLab-managed cluster** - Select this checkbox to
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[allow GitLab to manage namespace and service accounts](../../user/project/clusters/gitlab_managed_clusters.md) for this cluster.
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1. Select **Create Kubernetes cluster**.
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After a couple of minutes, the cluster is created. You can also see its
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status on your [GCP dashboard](https://console.cloud.google.com/kubernetes).
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## Install Ingress
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After your cluster is running, you must install NGINX Ingress Controller as a
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load balancer, to route traffic from the internet to your application.
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Install the NGINX Ingress Controller
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through the GitLab [Cluster management project template](../../user/clusters/management_project_template.md),
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or manually with Google Cloud Shell:
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1. Go to your cluster's details page, and select the **Advanced Settings** tab.
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1. Select the link to Google Kubernetes Engine to visit the cluster on Google Cloud Console.
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1. On the GKE cluster page, select **Connect**, then select **Run in Cloud Shell**.
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1. After the Cloud Shell starts, run these commands to install NGINX Ingress Controller:
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```shell
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kubectl create ns gitlab-managed-apps
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helm repo add stable https://charts.helm.sh/stable
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helm repo update
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helm install ingress stable/nginx-ingress -n gitlab-managed-apps
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# Check that the ingress controller is installed successfully
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kubectl get service ingress-nginx-ingress-controller -n gitlab-managed-apps
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```
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## Configure your base domain
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Follow these steps to configure the base domain where you access your apps.
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1. A few minutes after you install NGINX, the load balancer obtains an IP address, and you can
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get the external IP address with the following command:
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```shell
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kubectl get service ingress-nginx-ingress-controller -n gitlab-managed-apps -ojson | jq -r '.status.loadBalancer.ingress[].ip'
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```
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Replace `gitlab-managed-apps` if you have overwritten your namespace.
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Copy this IP address, as you need it in the next step.
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1. Go back to the cluster page on GitLab, and go to the **Details** tab.
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- Add your **Base domain**. For this example, use the domain `<IP address>.nip.io`.
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- Select **Save changes**.
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## Enable Auto DevOps (optional)
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While Auto DevOps is enabled by default, Auto DevOps can be disabled at both
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the instance level (for self-managed instances) and the group level. Complete
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these steps to enable Auto DevOps if it's disabled:
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1. Go to **Settings > CI/CD > Auto DevOps**, and select **Expand**.
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1. Select **Default to Auto DevOps pipeline** to display more options.
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1. In **Deployment strategy**, select your desired [continuous deployment strategy](requirements.md#auto-devops-deployment-strategy)
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to deploy the application to production after the pipeline successfully runs on the default branch.
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1. Select **Save changes**.
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After you save your changes, GitLab creates a new pipeline. To view it, go to
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**{rocket}** **CI/CD > Pipelines**.
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In the next section, we explain what each job does in the pipeline.
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## Deploy the application
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When your pipeline runs, what is it doing?
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To view the jobs in the pipeline, select the pipeline's status badge. The
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**{status_running}** icon displays when pipeline jobs are running, and updates
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without refreshing the page to **{status_success}** (for success) or
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**{status_failed}** (for failure) when the jobs complete.
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The jobs are separated into stages:
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- **Build** - The application builds a Docker image and uploads it to your project's
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[Container Registry](../../user/packages/container_registry/index.md) ([Auto Build](stages.md#auto-build)).
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- **Test** - GitLab runs various checks on the application, but all jobs except `test`
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are allowed to fail in the test stage:
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- The `test` job runs unit and integration tests by detecting the language and
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framework ([Auto Test](stages.md#auto-test))
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- The `code_quality` job checks the code quality and is allowed to fail
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([Auto Code Quality](stages.md#auto-code-quality))
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- The `container_scanning` job checks the Docker container if it has any
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vulnerabilities and is allowed to fail ([Auto Container Scanning](stages.md#auto-container-scanning))
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- The `dependency_scanning` job checks if the application has any dependencies
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susceptible to vulnerabilities and is allowed to fail
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([Auto Dependency Scanning](stages.md#auto-dependency-scanning))
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- Jobs suffixed with `-sast` run static analysis on the current code to check for potential
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security issues, and are allowed to fail ([Auto SAST](stages.md#auto-sast))
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- The `secret-detection` job checks for leaked secrets and is allowed to fail ([Auto Secret Detection](stages.md#auto-secret-detection))
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- The `license_scanning` job searches the application's dependencies to determine each of their
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licenses and is allowed to fail
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([Auto License Compliance](stages.md#auto-license-compliance))
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- **Review** - Pipelines on the default branch include this stage with a `dast_environment_deploy` job.
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To learn more, see [Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)](../../user/application_security/dast/index.md).
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- **Production** - After the tests and checks finish, the application deploys in
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Kubernetes ([Auto Deploy](stages.md#auto-deploy)).
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- **Performance** - Performance tests are run on the deployed application
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([Auto Browser Performance Testing](stages.md#auto-browser-performance-testing)).
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- **Cleanup** - Pipelines on the default branch include this stage with a `stop_dast_environment` job.
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After running a pipeline, you should view your deployed website and learn how
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to monitor it.
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### Monitor your project
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After successfully deploying your application, you can view its website and check
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on its health on the **Environments** page by navigating to
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**Deployments > Environments**. This page displays details about
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the deployed applications, and the right-hand column displays icons that link
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you to common environment tasks:
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- **Open live environment** (**{external-link}**) - Opens the URL of the application deployed in production
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- **Monitoring** (**{chart}**) - Opens the metrics page where Prometheus collects data
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about the Kubernetes cluster and how the application
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affects it in terms of memory usage, CPU usage, and latency
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- **Deploy to** (**{play}** **{angle-down}**) - Displays a list of environments you can deploy to
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- **Terminal** (**{terminal}**) - Opens a [web terminal](../../ci/environments/index.md#web-terminals-deprecated)
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session inside the container where the application is running
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- **Re-deploy to environment** (**{repeat}**) - For more information, see
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[Retrying and rolling back](../../ci/environments/index.md#retry-or-roll-back-a-deployment)
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- **Stop environment** (**{stop}**) - For more information, see
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[Stopping an environment](../../ci/environments/index.md#stop-an-environment)
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GitLab displays the [deploy board](../../user/project/deploy_boards.md) below the
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environment's information, with squares representing pods in your
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Kubernetes cluster, color-coded to show their status. Hovering over a square on
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the deploy board displays the state of the deployment, and selecting the square
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takes you to the pod's logs page.
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NOTE:
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The example shows only one pod hosting the application at the moment, but you can add
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more pods by defining the [`REPLICAS` CI/CD variable](customize.md#cicd-variables)
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in **Settings > CI/CD > Variables**.
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### Work with branches
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Following the [GitLab flow](../gitlab_flow.md#working-with-feature-branches),
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you should next create a feature branch to add content to your application:
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1. In your project's repository, go to the following file: `app/views/welcome/index.html.erb`.
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This file should only contain a paragraph: `<p>You're on Rails!</p>`.
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1. Open the GitLab [Web IDE](../../user/project/web_ide/index.md) to make the change.
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1. Edit the file so it contains:
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```html
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<p>You're on Rails! Powered by GitLab Auto DevOps.</p>
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```
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1. Stage the file. Add a commit message, then create a new branch and a merge request
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by selecting **Commit**.
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After submitting the merge request, GitLab runs your pipeline, and all the jobs
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in it, as [described previously](#deploy-the-application), in addition to
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a few more that run only on branches other than the default branch.
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After a few minutes a test fails, which means a test was
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'broken' by your change. Select the failed `test` job to see more information
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about it:
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```plaintext
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Failure:
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WelcomeControllerTest#test_should_get_index [/app/test/controllers/welcome_controller_test.rb:7]:
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<You're on Rails!> expected but was
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<You're on Rails! Powered by GitLab Auto DevOps.>..
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Expected 0 to be >= 1.
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bin/rails test test/controllers/welcome_controller_test.rb:4
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```
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To fix the broken test:
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1. Return to the **Overview** page for your merge request, and select **Open in Web IDE**.
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1. In the left-hand directory of files, find the `test/controllers/welcome_controller_test.rb`
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file, and select it to open it.
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1. Change line 7 to say `You're on Rails! Powered by GitLab Auto DevOps.`
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1. Select **Commit**.
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1. In the left-hand column, under **Unstaged changes**, select the checkmark icon
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(**{stage-all}**) to stage the changes.
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1. Write a commit message, and select **Commit**.
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Return to the **Overview** page of your merge request, and you should not only
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see the test passing, but also the application deployed as a
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[review application](stages.md#auto-review-apps). You can visit it by selecting
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the **View app** **{external-link}** button to see your changes deployed.
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After merging the merge request, GitLab runs the pipeline on the default branch,
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and then deploys the application to production.
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## Conclusion
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After implementing this project, you should have a solid understanding of the basics of Auto DevOps.
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You started from building and testing, to deploying and monitoring an application
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all in GitLab. Despite its automatic nature, Auto DevOps can also be configured
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and customized to fit your workflow. Here are some helpful resources for further reading:
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1. [Auto DevOps](index.md)
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1. [Multiple Kubernetes clusters](multiple_clusters_auto_devops.md)
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1. [Incremental rollout to production](customize.md#incremental-rollout-to-production)
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1. [Disable jobs you don't need with CI/CD variables](customize.md#cicd-variables)
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1. [Use your own buildpacks to build your application](customize.md#custom-buildpacks)
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1. [Prometheus monitoring](../../user/project/integrations/prometheus.md)
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