Jenkins Pipeline for OpenShift Deployments
Enterprise-grade CI/CD automation system for deploying microservices on OpenShift using Jenkins pipelines, Helm charts, and intelligent verification with automated rollback capabilities.
🎯 The Challenge: Enterprise Deployment Complexity
Deploying microservices to OpenShift requires orchestrating multiple systems: source control, Helm charts, cluster authentication, deployment verification, rollback strategies, and stakeholder notifications — all while maintaining zero-downtime deployments.
Coordinate Git, Helm, OpenShift, and dashboard APIs seamlessly
Ensure pods are healthy before declaring success
Automatically recover from failed deployments
Track deployment progress across teams and systems
🚀 The Solution: Intelligent CI/CD Automation
A suite of Jenkins Pipelines that handle the complete deployment lifecycle — from webhook trigger to verified production deployment — with built-in intelligence for handling failures gracefully.
Full deployment with dry-run validation, installation, and verification
Instant rollback to previous stable release with verification
Clean removal of Helm releases with proper cleanup
⚡ Key Capabilities
Generic Webhook Trigger extracts deployment parameters from JSON payload, enabling integration with any deployment management system.
Real-time events sent to Hive dashboard: DEPLOYMENT_STARTED, DRYRUN_SUCCESS, INSTALLED, VERIFIED, FAILED, ROLLED_BACK.
Polls replica status for Deployments, DeploymentConfigs, and StatefulSets until all replicas are ready or timeout.
On verification failure with ROLLBACK policy, automatically reverts to previous Helm release and verifies rollback success.
Detailed email reports with component, version, build URL, duration, and attached logs for post-mortem analysis.
Support for ACTIVE/INACTIVE states, RollingUpdate/Recreate strategies, and environment-specific configurations.
📦 Helm Chart Architecture
The deployment system uses a modular Helm chart structure with conditional sub-charts for maximum flexibility:
🧠 Deployment Intelligence
Service account tokens stored in Jenkins credentials, automatic oc login/logout per deployment.
Fetches chart repo, chart name, deployment type, and namespace from Hive service map API.
Verification loops with configurable retry counts (20 for Deployments, 11 for StatefulSets).
Labels with deploymentId, deploymentPlanId, deployedBy for full audit trail.
🏆 Benefits Achieved
Webhook-triggered deployments execute in minutes, not hours.
Dry-run validation catches errors before touching production.
Auto-rollback ensures failed deployments don't cause outages.
Real-time dashboard updates and email notifications keep everyone informed.
Complete audit trail with deployment IDs, timestamps, and build logs.
Consistent deployment process across all microservices and environments.
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