Commit 7fac5c8d authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Copyedit Auto DevOps deployment strategy docs

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To enable Auto DevOps to your project:
1. Check that your project doesn't have a `.gitlab-ci.yml`, or remove it otherwise
1. Go to your project's **Settings > CI/CD > General pipelines settings** and
find the Auto DevOps section
1. Go to your project's **Settings > CI/CD > Auto DevOps**
1. Select "Enable Auto DevOps"
1. Optionally, but recommended, add in the [base domain](#auto-devops-base-domain)
that will be used by Kubernetes to deploy your application
that will be used by Kubernetes to [deploy your application](#auto-deploy)
and choose the [deployment strategy](#deployment-strategy)
1. Hit **Save changes** for the changes to take effect
Once saved, an Auto DevOps pipeline will be triggered on the default branch.
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all the projects that haven't explicitly set an option will have Auto DevOps
enabled by default.
### Deployment Strategy
### Deployment strategy
You can change the deployment strategy used by Auto DevOps from within the UI.
This sets or unsets the `STAGING_ENABLED` and `INCREMENTAL_ROLLOUT_ENABLED`
variables.
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/38542) in GitLab 11.0.
You can change the deployment strategy used by Auto DevOps by going to your
project's **Settings > CI/CD > Auto DevOps**.
The available options are:
* Continuous deployment to production
* This enables [Auto Deploy](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/#auto-deploy)
* Automatic deployment to staging, manual deployment to production
* The user is responsible for [deploying to staging and production](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/environments.html#manually-deploying-to-environments)
- **Continuous deployment to production** - enables [Auto Deploy](#auto-deploy)
by setting the [`STAGING_ENABLED`](#deploy-policy-for-staging-and-production-environments) and
[`INCREMENTAL_ROLLOUT_ENABLED`](#incremental-rollout-to-production) variables
to false.
- **Automatic deployment to staging, manual deployment to production** - sets the
[`STAGING_ENABLED`](#deploy-policy-for-staging-and-production-environments) and
[`INCREMENTAL_ROLLOUT_ENABLED`](#incremental-rollout-to-production) variables
to true, and the user is responsible for manually deploying to staging and production.
## Stages of Auto DevOps
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> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-yml/merge_requests/160)
in GitLab 10.8.
TIP: **Tip:**
You can also set this inside your [project's settings](#deployment-strategy).
The normal behavior of Auto DevOps is to use Continuous Deployment, pushing
automatically to the `production` environment every time a new pipeline is run
on the default branch. However, there are cases where you might want to use a
......@@ -686,6 +694,9 @@ If `CANARY_ENABLED` is defined in your project (e.g., set `CANARY_ENABLED` to
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/5415) in GitLab 10.8.
TIP: **Tip:**
You can also set this inside your [project's settings](#deployment-strategy).
When you have a new version of your app to deploy in production, you may want
to use an incremental rollout to replace just a few pods with the latest code.
This will allow you to first check how the app is behaving, and later manually
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