# Node-RED tekton pipeline on OpenShift Container Platform (Kubernetes)

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**Created:** [2 September 2021 12:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-tekton-pipeline-on-openshift-container-platform-kubernetes/50535 "2021-09-02T12:36:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![TomMadelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4da419/32.png) [@TomMadelin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TomMadelin)\
**Post date:** [2 September 2021 12:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-tekton-pipeline-on-openshift-container-platform-kubernetes/50535/1 "2021-09-02T12:36:28Z")

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Hello all.

I recently worked on a project that required the use of node-RED to handle HTTP routes and MQTT nodes, talking to a React frond-end and an Arduino board. We hosted the application on OpenShift Container Platform (Kubernetes with extra bells and whistles) and deployed updates through a CI/CD pipeline made with Tekton.

To keep things simple we wanted to deploy our node-RED instance to the cluster using our CI/CD pipeline, as there were about 4 of us working off the same code base. When browsing online I could only find one article describing node-RED working with [pipelines](https://knolleary.net/2018/06/01/creating-a-node-red-deployment-pipeline-to-ibm-cloud/).

Now the question you might be asking is: is it overkill hosting your node-RED instance on kubernetes? Would we ever need our instance to be scaled out horizontally to multiple pods etc? I'm not sure...

I would be interested to hear how/where other people have hosted their node-RED instances... And if you think this is helpful to the community in any way. See below for the repo outlining the steps we took when deploying node-RED to an OpenShift cluster (or Kubernetes).

> **[GitHub - MadelinTom/node-RED-tekton-pipeline: Example Tekton scripts for...](https://github.com/MadelinTom/node-RED-tekton-pipeline)**
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> Example Tekton scripts for deploying a node-RED pipeline on Kubernetes or OpenShift Container Platform. - GitHub - MadelinTom/node-RED-tekton-pipeline: Example Tekton scripts for deploying a node-R...