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Why do you need to modernize Jenkins pipelines with CD Automation? If there’s one Continuous Integration (CI) tool that software delivery teams swear by, it is undoubtedly Jenkins. Jenkins has been an indispensable CI tool for DevOps for over a decade. Jenkins is a flexible, open-source CI tool that software delivery teams use to build, […]
June 16, 2022
Purpose Spinnaker as a renowned Continuous Delivery tool supports app deployment into all major cloud environments including Azure cloud. Here, we guide you through the configuration and pipeline setup of a Windows application into Azure cloud using Spinnaker. Scope The integration steps here have been tested on Spinnaker 1.24.2. In most cases, the procedure should […]
March 12, 2021
What is a Debian Package ? A Package is compressed file that generally contain all of the files necessary to implement a set of related commands or features for a tool or operating system. Here in this blog, you will learn how and why you should use Debian packages in your Spinnaker CI/CD pipelines. Why […]
Kubernetes is the leading container orchestration system, and it has a vast ecosystem of open source and commercial components built around it. Today, in the wake of the pandemic, even more enterprises are considering Kubernetes a central part of their IT transformation journey. Kubernetes is a great container management tool because it offers: Automated bin […]
In Continuous Delivery, a faster feedback loop ensures quicker identification and resolution of bugs, audits, and approvals of the CI/CD pipeline stages in Spinnaker or other CD tools. Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication and collaboration platform. DevOps teams often use MS Teams for workspace collaboration, communication, shared file storage, and application integration. Why do […]
March 11, 2021
WARNING: Redis can be used as Spinnaker’s persistent storage source, but it is unsupported and not recommended for production use-cases because it mixes fungible, short-lived cache entries with the Pipeline and Application data that deploy all of your infrastructures. This means you will have to be extra careful when clearing your Spinnaker Redis cache. Spinnaker stores its pipeline […]
February 27, 2021
Background The self-signed certs (certificates) for mutual TLS, used as a means of security and authentication for communication between Spinnaker microservices, are usually short-lived (maybe for three months) and expire after the specified period of time. If the mTLS certs are approaching expiry, these certs need to be updated to extend their expiry time. The cert-manager is […]
About the Bank The customer is an international banking group, with around 86,000 employees and a 150-year history in some of the world’s most dynamic markets. Although they are based in London, the majority of their customers and employees are in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The company is a leader in the personal, […]
February 22, 2021
OpsMx Autopilot is an AI/ML-powered Continuous Verification platform that verifies software updates across different deployment stages using CI/CD pipelines, ensuring their safety and reliability in live/production environment. It automates new release verification, reducing time-consuming and error-prone manual verification processes. Autopilot uses AI and ML technologies to assess the risk of a new release, find the […]
February 19, 2021
Spinnaker needs no introduction in the world of continuous delivery. It is widely used across the community for its ease of use and implementation and for its ability to perform multi-cloud deployments. While the Spinnaker CD pipelines are widely accepted & used for their rich feature set & functionality, it lacks in providing cumulative data […]
Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking and IT technologies, dedicated to helping people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Cisco’s IT manages one of the industry’s largest and most diverse software development organizations. Challenge: Transform Software Delivery to Speed the Shift to the Cloud
February 12, 2021