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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
Jenkins as a butler for your build activities There is no doubt that Jenkins is essentially the most popular Continuous Integration (CI) tool in the world. Today, many organizations have extended it to handle Continuous Delivery (CD) but with mixed results. The time and effort required to develop, manage, and maintain Jenkins scripts, plugins, and pipelines can […]
May 27, 2022
Many organizations are using a combination of Jenkins and a tool like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Salt to automate their CI/CD pipelines but find themselves having to do many steps manually or using a series of scripts that can be hard to maintain. Many organizations manually move software from Development to Staging to Production with time-consuming manual processes. Spinnaker can fully automate these processes. Spinnaker can fully integrate with standard CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory but add a layer of automation to automate software deployments to Development, Staging, and Production, eliminating many manual steps. Spinnaker also automates the creation of Canary Analysis and Blue/Green environments. Many large organizations, including Netflix and Google, use Spinnaker. Spinnaker was developed at Netflix and Google to automate their massive volume of CI/CD pipelines, but both large and smaller organizations can benefit from Spinnaker’s automation.
October 10, 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
Many developers, DevOps engineers, and SREs are clearly excited about using Spinnaker to modernize their overall software delivery (CI/CD) process. And the primary reasons for this excitement are Spinnaker is open-source software and the only tool to offer hybrid and multi-cloud deployment in the marketplace. At the same time, many organizations are hesitant to move […]
December 3, 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
DevOps World 2020 took place this past Sep 22, 2020 – Sep 24, 2020, and was virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That did not stop the team at Cloudbees from delivering on what was indeed a great conference. The Cloudbees team went above and beyond in delivering a quality event that felt like a […]
October 16, 2020
Introduction As the Spinnaker is evolving, new features are being incorporated and one of them is External Account Configuration which allows the configurations to be externalized via Git, Hashicorp Vault, databases, CredHub, etc. You may be asked if we can keep the cloud provider account details in a remote repository? If so, what if an account change […]
January 7, 2020
After adding a Jenkins master to Spinnaker through hal command, the ci part of the hal config looks like the following: ci: jenkins: enabled: true masters: - name: opsmx-jenkins-master permissions: {} address: http://opsmx-jenkins.com/jenkins username: opsmx_username password: password_in_plain_text Can we pass the Jenkins credentials as environment variables to Spinnaker? Yes. This blog explains how it can […]
December 2, 2019
Introduction Enterprises are moving to DevOps model and also adopting agile software development methodologies to accelerate the software deliveries. As the velocity of software development increases, the need to speed up the testing and validation also arises. Enterprises usually do some combination of the following to validate new releases – functional testing, integration testing, end-to-end […]
June 29, 2017
