Consolidate multiple deployments in a repo to one app

[EamonKeane]

For repos with multiple deployments (such as separate nginx and php deployments), jenkinsx currently thinks there are two apps by parsing each of the deployment.

In reality there is one and jx promote only works on the main repo not each of the displayed apps. If multiple deployments are detected jenkinsx should possibly revert to the name of the repo and pick the version from one of the deployments or throw an error if both of them are not the same.

APPLICATION          STAGING PODS URL                                                                   PRODUCTION PODS URL
fleetcore-nginx      0.0.11  2/2  http://fleetcore-nginx-jx-staging.test.squareroute.io
fleetcore-phpfpm     0.0.11  2/2

[ccojocar]

@EamonKeane At the moment, jx supports one application per deployment. There isn't any dedicated CRD for an application which stores the metadata of an application consisting of multiple deployments.

You have a few options:

• extract the nginx proxy in a separate chart and manage it as a separate application
• use nginx as a side car container in the application deployment

[EamonKeane]

@ccojocar Thanks. Maybe it's not a commonly used pattern but the main benefit of separate deployment is independent scalability of replicas for the nginx and php components. Bitnami use it in their example chart.

The separate application doesn't really fit the use case, but a side car would resolve it. Alternatively knowing to run jx promote fleetcore and not the individual ones also works.

https://github.com/bitnami/tutorials/blob/master/phpfpm-k8s/helm-chart/templates/deployment.yaml

[ccojocar]

@EamonKeane I am going to close this issue, since we are not planning to support multiple deployments per application. Thanks