No way to define the manifests to deploy

[villesau]

Orb version:

1.4.0

What happened:

I tried to follow the instructions here: https://circleci.com/developer/orbs/orb/circleci/gcp-gke
and here: https://circleci.com/blog/simplifying-your-ci-cd-build-pipeline-to-gke-with-circleci-orbs/

But looks like there is no way to define the manifest files for the deployment.

Expected behavior:

In Kubernetes, manifest files are used to define the deployment, related configs etc. I'd expect to be able to define them or the folder leading to them in order to perform the deploy. However, to my understanding there is no way to do that.

I would expect to be able to define the manifests and the latest image to deploy among other potentially changed configurations.

Additional Information:

due to this, I don't understand how this orb is supposed to be used in the first place. Maybe a better tutorial would be also needed.

[EricRibeiro]

Hi @villesau 👋

This orb is meant to help you create and delete clusters and node pools in GCP. You should use the circleci/kubernetes orb to interact with the cluster.

For the scenario you outlined, maybe this command will help: https://circleci.com/developer/orbs/orb/circleci/kubernetes#commands-create-or-update-resource.

I tried to follow the instructions here: https://circleci.com/developer/orbs/orb/circleci/gcp-gke
and here: https://circleci.com/blog/simplifying-your-ci-cd-build-pipeline-to-gke-with-circleci-orbs/

I agree the examples are lacking. I'll leave this issue open as a reminder to create examples of the circleci/gcp-gke orb interacting with the circleci/kubernetes.