CV0-004 Deployment Practice Question
A cloud team is implementing a CI/CD pipeline for a containerized application. They want to automatically build a Docker image, push it to a registry, and deploy it to a Kubernetes cluster. Which TWO tools from the options below are commonly used as part of this pipeline? (Select 2)
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Jenkins
Jenkins and GitLab CI are both CI/CD tools that can build Docker images, push to registries, and deploy to Kubernetes. Terraform and CloudFormation are IaC tools, not CI/CD. Docker Compose is for local development.
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Jenkins
Why this is correct
Jenkins orchestrates the pipeline stages: it triggers builds, runs Docker commands to build and push images to a registry, then applies Kubernetes manifests to deploy. Its extensive plugin ecosystem integrates each of these steps, satisfying the stem's requirement for automated build, push and deployment tooling.
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CloudFormation
Why it's wrong here
CloudFormation provisions AWS infrastructure as code, not CI/CD build or deployment tooling; it cannot build Docker images or push them to a registry. It is tempting because it orchestrates cloud resources declaratively, and would be correct for templating the Kubernetes cluster's underlying AWS infrastructure itself.
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GitLab CI
Why this is correct
GitLab CI is a pipeline orchestrator that runs build, test and deploy stages from a .gitlab-ci.yml file, invoking Docker to build and push images and kubectl or Helm to deploy to Kubernetes, satisfying the automated build-push-deploy requirement.
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Terraform
Why it's wrong here
Terraform provisions and manages infrastructure declaratively; it does not build images or run pipeline stages, so it cannot perform the build-push-deploy sequence. It is tempting because Terraform can declare the Kubernetes cluster and registry themselves, which is the correct choice when provisioning that underlying infrastructure.
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Docker Compose
Why it's wrong here
Docker Compose orchestrates multi-container applications on a single host for local development, not pipeline build-and-deploy stages to Kubernetes. It is tempting because it defines containers in YAML, and would be correct for running the application locally during development or testing before pushing images.
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