🎲 Deployment Roulette

🧠 This project was originally created as part of the Site Reliability Engineer Nanodegree by Udacity.

📖 Overview

Deployment Roulette is an experimental project that explores automated deployment strategies and CI/CD integrations using GitHub Actions. It demonstrates:

• 🟢 Canary deployments to AWS EKS clusters
• 📝 JIRA automation: auto-creating tickets from pull requests

This project uses GitHub Actions to orchestrate selective deployments and cross-platform issue management as part of a modern SRE workflow.

⚠️ Note: This project focuses on automation workflows and integration logic. Some shell scripts or services may be mocked or intentionally left abstract.

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📦 Dependencies

To run or test these workflows locally, you should have:

• AWS CLI
• kubectl
• eksctl
• terraform
• helm

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🗂️ Project Structure

• .github/workflows/canary-deployment.yml: triggers canary deploys to EKS
• .github/workflows/manual.yml: auto-creates JIRA tickets from PRs

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🚀 How It Works

🔁 canary-deployment.yml

Triggered by:

• Opening or reopening a Pull Request
• Manual invocation from the GitHub Actions tab

Performs:

1. Configures AWS credentials using GitHub OIDC
2. Connects to an EKS cluster
3. Runs a canary.sh deployment script (must be defined in /starter/apps/canary/)

Use Case: Progressive delivery strategy — a new version is deployed to a subset of pods/users before full rollout.

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🔧 manual.yml

Triggered by:

• Opening or reopening a Pull Request
• Manual trigger from Actions tab

Performs:

1. Authenticates to JIRA via secrets
2. Creates a new issue in the CONUPDATE project
3. Assigns type Task and links PR info into the summary

Use Case: Streamlining workflow between GitHub and JIRA during feature/bug deployments.

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🔐 Secrets Required

Set the following GitHub Actions secrets for workflows to succeed:

AWS for Canary Deployments:

• AWS_REGION
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• AWS_SESSION_TOKEN (if using temporary creds)

JIRA for Issue Creation:

• JIRA_BASE_URL
• JIRA_USER_EMAIL
• JIRA_API_TOKEN

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🙌 Author

Made with ❤️ and 🧉 by Cristian Cevasco