A developer shared their journey of building a fully monitored, Kubernetes-powered CI/CD pipeline with Node.js, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions.
Key components include a Node.js backend with Prometheus-compatible metrics, Dockerized application, Kubernetes deployment using YAML manifests on Minikube, and real-time monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.
CI/CD is managed through GitHub Actions triggering Docker image builds, pushes to Docker Hub, and optional Kubernetes deployment if kubeconfig is provided, all secured using GitHub Secrets.
The stack involves technologies like Node.js, Express, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, and YAML, with future plans to add alerting and consider managed deployment on GKE or EKS.