Continuous Delivery Foundation / CDEventsCon 2022

CDEvents as Catalyst to Innovation in CI/CD Ecosystem - Maria Ashby, Armory; Fatih Degirmenci, Ericsson; Brad McCoy; Melissa McKay; + Erik Sternerson

The development of a CI/CD pipeline often involves cobbling together a number of different tools and technologies that enable organizations to release their products on time with quality. However, the technologies used to establish pipelines do not speak the same language similar to us humans due to lack of interoperability across them. CDEvents project works on establishing shared terminology and developing an event protocol to achieve interoperability within the CI/CD ecosystem. Join this discussion to learn more about the different use cases that could be addressed by events, hear what is currently being discussed within various groups and projects such as CDF SIG Interoperability, CDF SIG Software Supply Chain, Jenkins, and Spinnaker and how they envision what CDEvents project could do to enable the innovation within the CI/CD ecosystem.

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CDEvents in Tekton: The path to a more interoperable CI/CD system - Vibhav Bobade, Lifesaver, Inc.

The CloudEvents format was introduced to standardise event formats in the cloud ecosystem. This has allowed different event brokers to consider a single format for communication.

The need for better interoperability between CI/CD systems is gaining importance, as companies continue to have multiple CI/CD systems in their environment.

To facilitate interoperability between them in an event-driven fashion, the CDEvents community was born which would use CloudEvents as the base format for the CDEvents format as a standard for communication between different CI/CD systems.

One such system is Tekton which uses k8s style resources to create CI/CD pipelines. Tekton already supports CloudEvents and there is ongoing work to support CDEvents. In this talk, the speaker will go over the CloudEvents controller for Tekton, work being done to standardise the CDEvents format for Tekton along with a demo for the same.

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CI/CD for Autonomous Drive and other complex systems - What we have learned about using events - Erik Sternerson, doWhile

Complex systems often imply complex builds, complex verification and complex releases, and complex CI/CD pipelines spanning multiple teams and departments. Hardware is often involved as well, adding an additional level of complexity.
Several challenges frequently present themselves in such CI/CD pipelines, mainly related to observability, such as understanding what has been built and packaged, what has been tested where and how, and what is ready to be released to "the next level". These observability issues are often solved in the same manner: using events.
In this talk, we will give an introduction to "industry-style enterprise-scale" CI/CD, present some challenges that are unique to this domain, and describe how the industry is working to overcome them using events.

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Eiffel - An open-source event protocol for CI/CD pipelines - Emil Backmark, Ericsson

Eiffel is an open-source protocol specification for events to be used in CI/CD pipelines. The talk will describe the background to why the Eiffel protocol was first invented and it’s evolution. It will provide an overview of what the protocol looks like, what core parts it is made up of, and what use cases it is there to solve. The talk will also cover how the Eiffel protocol relates to the emerging CDEvents protocol, how it helps CDEvents on its path to success, and what lies ahead for the two of them.

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Expanding Interoperability in the CD Ecosystem - Mauricio Salatino, VMware & Ishan Khare, Loft Labs

Building an inclusive ecosystem where you can connect different tools built in using different technologies and languages is hard, as different tools tend to promote different protocols and similar but not the same architectural patterns.

This presentation focuses on the CD Events initiative led by the SIG-Events Working Group at the CD Foundation. During this presentation a new use case will be presented showing how tools like Knative, Tekton and Crossplane can work together by just relying on CD Events, no custom libraries, no forced protocols, just a standard and reactive way to interconnect disparate systems that were created by different communities with different purposes.

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Keynote: Events in CI/CD - Andrea Frittoli, IBM

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Remove the Hurdles of Non-interoperability in Your CI/CD Workflows by Choosing Event-Driven Standardization - Shruti Chaturvedi + Oleg Nenashev, Dynatrace

Interoperability is essential to building cloud-native, event-driven workloads across CI/CD tools, but the lack of normalization and standardization while designing an effective event-driven architecture is a big challenge. Event-driven is essentially a design pattern where systems emit events and other participating systems react to those events. There are different ways to build this reactionary EDA. The main goal is that the events occurring within the CI/CD workflow should be dealt with effectively. Interoperability defines if and how are our systems interactingwith each other.

In this session, we’ll see the nuances of interoperable systems and discuss the need to standardize interoperability in event-driven systems. Within event-driven systems, we have the tools which emit or receive events, and then we have the actual events. We’ll take a closer look at how defining a standard for which event should be emitted when and what that event should look like makes working in multi-tool CI/CD workflows easy, efficient and cheap. CloudEvents, a common format for describing all event data, helps cross one phase of the interoperability roadblock elegantly. CDEvents helps cross the second phase by defining a standard vocabulary so the need to handle separate events emanating from separate tools is eliminated. We’ll start by looking at the CloudEvents plugin for Jenkins to see the advantage of standardization in event-driven architecture. We’ll also discuss how the CDEvents spec can add another dimension to what event-driven architecture can look like. With so many tools in the CI/CD workflow emitting similar yet different events, we fail to capture the power of event-driven. This, however, can be solved by leveraging standardization.

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The Ortelius Journey with GitOps and Event Driven CI/CD - Brad McCoy, Moula

From early on the Ortelius team had seen value in events and how they can solve many of our problems that we face in our DevOps processes, particularly around Interoperability.

As they embarked on their journey implementing GitOps, they then realized that there were a lot of moving parts and tools in their CI/CD process so decided to adopt Keptn as the control plane to handle events. In this session we will explore how Ortelius, Keptn and GitOps form a new kind of pipeline that incorporates a central catalog for tracking the DevOps data in an event driven CD Pipeline.

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CDEventsCon Talk Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2KXbZ9-EY9QtshpDdxEyDTbSPMZzZZS1

CDEvents is a new CD Foundation project by the Events Special Interest Group that provides a vendor-neutral specification for the format of event data. It’s all about interoperability between tools used to produce software, from source to production.