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Introduction: For all the people out there who want to understand DevOps and CI/CD methodology better and start implementing it in their organization, I have curated a list of top 5 must read DevOps books. So let us dive into the world of books. The Phoenix Project: Authors: Gene Kim, George Spafford and Kevin Behr […]
July 7, 2021
In this blog, we will examine some of the popular enterprise deployment tools, introduce two of Netflix’s open-source deployment tools, the Nebula Gradle plugins, and Spinnaker, and we will show you how to deploy a production-ready Spring Boot application. We will use a fully automated CI/CD pipeline workflow using the following tools: The build, and bake process will […]
March 24, 2021
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
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 […]
CI/CD pipeline is defined as a series of steps that include all the stages from the outset of the CI/CD process and is responsible for creating automated and seamless software delivery. With a CI CD pipeline, a software release artifact can move and progress through the pipeline right from the code check-in stage through the test, build, deploy, and production stages. This concept is powerful because once a pipeline has been specified, parts or all of it can be automated, speeding the process and reducing errors. In other words, the goal of a pipeline workflow is to make it easier for enterprises to deliver software multiple times a day automatically.
February 12, 2021
“We implemented a modern CI & CD, but our process is Still slow and costly.” Says the CIO of a large enterprise (Fortune 100), during an interview. The CIO leads a team of about 10,000 thousand engineers responsible for delivering 1000+ applications and doing 400,000 deployments a year came up with the statement as quoted […]
January 7, 2021
“Faster Releases leads to increasing Failures” – Gartner Study, 2017 According to a 2017 Gartner Study, it was found that as organizations try to increase their speed of delivery of software applications the failures increased significantly. Failure rates increased when those organizations tried to increase the delivery frequency from monthly to weekly/ daily or hourly […]
November 12, 2020
Continuous Delivery (CD) is not a new concept anymore. Enterprises across the globe are practicing continuous delivery in different capacities. Through continuous delivery, organizations can empower their developers to focus on writing and committing code and shipping the values into customers’ hands speedily and sustainably. Let me repeat it; Continuous Delivery(CD) is a way of delivering software speedily, safely, and sustainably.
October 28, 2020
1. Prerequisites Source Code in GitHub Spinnaker 1.16 1.1 Source Code Repository in GitHub Prepare a GitHub repository with some source code to build and it must contain either a Dockerfile or a cloudbuild.yaml file to configure the build. Spinnaker Deploy Code 1.2 Spinnaker Spinnaker should be running with v1.16.1. 2. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Configuration 2.1 GCP […]
September 30, 2019
