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Reimagining CI/CD Pipelines as Composable Blocks with Bryan Liles
Bryan Liles, senior staff engineer at VMWare, talked at the DeliveryConf about ideas of patterns and recommendations when building CI/CD pipelines. Liles recommends thinking about CI/CD as patterns instead of implementations, like merely using Jenkins or Spinnaker. It should be possible to build a platform with composable blocks with replaceable components and agnostic to a technology stack.
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Platform9 Announce Free SaaS-Managed Kubernetes Solution
Platform9, a SaaS-managed hybrid cloud platform, has announced a free managed Kubernetes service for hybrid environments with automated Day2 operations including one-click upgrades, security patching, and monitoring. The new free tier enables users to take advantage of a SaaS management plane for Kubernetes on hybrid environments.
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DevOps beyond Development and Operations with Patrick Debois at QCon London
Patrick Debois talked at QCon London about thinking of DevOps beyond development and operation silos. DevOps is inherently complex, and there are other risks, challenges, and bottlenecks outside the software delivery pipeline where collaboration is vital, for instance, when collaborating with other groups like suppliers, HR, marketing, sales, finance, or legal.
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GitHub Actions API Released into Public Beta
GitHub announced the release into public beta of their Actions API. The Actions API can be used to manage GitHub Actions via a REST API. Endpoints available within the API allow for managing artifacts, secrets, runners, and workflows.
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Algorithmia Adds GitHub Integration to Machine Learning Platform
Algorithmia, an AI model management automation platform for data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers, now integrates with GitHub.
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What Will the Next 10 Years of Continuous Delivery Look Like?
Dave Farley and Jez Humble talked at the DeliveryConf about their expectations for the next ten years of Continous Delivery (CD). For CD to succeed, the IT industry needs to focus on three performance aspects: technical, organizational, and cultural–all profoundly interrelated. DORA's report has shown that technical practices can lead the change, but they alone aren't enough.
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CircleCI Introduces New Orbs to Simplify Deployment Activities
CircleCI recently announced the availability of Deployment Orbs which focus on streamlining and simplifying the integration of deployment workflows into CircleCI jobs. This release includes orbs for deploying into common environments such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, and Salesforce.
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CircleCI Adds Security Integrations to Streamline Securing CI/CD Pipelines
CircleCI announced the addition of new orbs that address common use cases and needs with securing your CI/CD pipelines. The orbs added to the repository with this release cover vulnerability scanning, secrets management, license scanning, and digital scanning. It includes integrations with AWS and Google Cloud.
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Atomist Adds Drift Management Features to Minimize Process and Code Divergence
Atomist recently released Drift Management as a new feature within their Software Delivery Machine. This tool helps to track and control drift within repositories, libraries, and Docker images. Drift Management is open source and available in Atomist subscription plans, including the free tier.
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GoDaddy Releases Automatic Canary Deployments Tool for Kubernetes
GoDaddy recently released an open-source tool to automate gated deployments in Kubernetes. Every time a deployment happens, the tool can run regression tests, and pull metrics from data backends like New Relic. After some time, the tool decides whether to roll back or continue with the deployment automatically. Users can run A/B tests and run experiments with a small portion of live traffic.
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GitHub to Integrate Semmle Code Analysis for Continuous Vulnerability Detection
With the acquisition of startup Semmle, GitHub aims to make continuous vulnerability detection part of their continuous integration/continuous deployment service.
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HashiConf US 2019: Terraform and Consul Updates, Multi-* Workflows, and Shared Learning
At the fifth HashiConf US conference, held in Seattle, the HashiCorp founders made several new feature announcements for their Terraform and Consul products. Additional key takeaways from the event included: focus on workflows, not tooling; the software delivery world is becoming multi-cloud/platform/service; and there is still much that developers can learn from operations teams, and vice versa.
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CloudBees Releases Official Jenkins X Distribution
CloudBees has released its official Jenkins X distribution, a CI/CD tool for cloud-native Kubernetes applications based on the GitOps approach. CloudBees will take the essential features from the open-source code with a monthly release cadence. This initial release supports GKE, pipelines, vault integration, and preview environments; additional features like DevPods will come in a future version.
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Introducing CircleCI Windows Support, a CI/CD Pipeline on a Windows Virtual Machine
CircleCI has recently announced Windows support, expanding its current set of supported execution environments that already support Linux, Docker, and macOS. CircleCI Windows support enables users to run their CI/CD pipeline on a Windows virtual machine.
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GitHub Launches Actions-Powered CI/CD Service, Free for Public Repos
Based on developer feedback, GitHub has just introduced its own Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) service for GitHub Actions. Currently in beta, the new service will be free for public repos and will support self-hosting.