In this blog post we’ll go through the steps of creating an automated deployment pipeline for Kubernetes using GitLab. In the end we’ll have a simple Go application running that very excitingly returns “Hello, World!”. Prerequisites #Before we can begin our quest for automation, we’ll need to set up some tools. Many alternatives of course exist to the tools that I pick. Feel free to use any other option, but make sure to make any necessary changes if you are following along with this post.