Continuous Delivery Foundation / CDF - Online Meetups

DevOps is not just about operating the software in production, but also about releasing that software to production. Well-functioning CI/CD pipelines are critical for the business, and this calls for quality observability, to handle broken and flaky pipeline runs effectively.

On this episode I hosted Oleg Nenashev, a core maintainer and board member in the Jenkins project, as well as a TOC member in the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). Oleg is a community builder, open source advocate and consultant, now at WireMock Inc. He is also a CDF and CNCF ambassador.

We discussed CI/CD, observability, the prominent open source projects and foundations, as well as a new proposal for extending OpenTelemetry to natively support CI/CD observability use cases.

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Resources
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Observability Has a Complexity Problem (APM Digest): https://www.apmdigest.com/observability-devops-pulse-2023
OTLP 1.0 is out https://twitter.com/horovits/status/1675946183032729622
Open Standards in observability: updates from KubeCon: https://logz.io/blog/observability-open-standards-kubecon-open-source/?utm_source=devrel&utm_medium=devrel
CI/CD observability support in OpenTelemetry proposal:
https://github.com/open-telemetry/oteps/pull/223
State of Continuous Delivery report https://cd.foundation/state-of-cd-2023/

Chapters
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00:00 - show intro
01:00 - episode and guest intro
10:08 - what’s new in Jenkins
15:46 - is Jenkins cloud-native?
16:52 - understanding the CI/CD landscape
21:54 - updates from the Continuous Delivery Foundation
27:00 - CI/CD observability support in OpenTelemetry
40:31 - observability with Backstage IDP open source
47:47 - how to contact Oleg
48:51 - State of Continuous Delivery report
52:32 - OTLP 1.0 release and other open standards updates
54:32 - KubeCon will hold a dev-centric event for the first time
55:55 - Jaeger 1.47 is out
57:30 - DevOps Pulse survey insights
58:55 - outro

Abdallah Abedraba from Kubeshop explains the need for a shift in testing on Kubernetes. Meet TestKube.io, a new way to manage testing in your cloud-native environment.

With the recent 'security awakening' new supply chain tooling is available to harden the DevOps Pipeline. Learn from Steve Taylor, CTO of DeployHub and CDF TOC Board Member, what tools go where. He will explore 5 phases of the pipeline where scanning, signing, SBOMs, and cataloging can be added to evolve your DevOps Pipeline into a DevSecOps Pipeline.

Supply chain security is top of mind for organizations looking to avoid being victims to the next Solar Winds type of supply chain attack. Pyrsia, CDF's newest incubating project, seeks to address this issue by creating a decentralized package management network. Built-in Rust, Pyrsia's entire codebase will be open source, uses consensus for acceptance of packages to the network, and features an immutable transaction ledger. Learn about these components and more during our next CDF Meetup with the team behind Pyrsia.

If you have never contributed to an open-source project, but wanted to, this CDF Online Meetup is for you. Sacha Wharton and Arvind Singharpuria give an inspiring presentation to get you started, with a list of tools you can use to setup your development environment. Get ready to contribute to CDEvents, Jenkins, JenkinsX, Ortelius, Shipwright, Screwdriver, Tekton and Spinnaker.

CD Events, Supply Chain, and Reference Architecture are just a few projects that Fatih has started evangelizing since he began his new GM position in June. Join us for a proper introduction to this forward-thinking technologist who has taken on the role of managing the people and projects of the Continuous Delivery Foundation. Learn how you can get involved in one of the many Working Groups, Special Interest Groups, or Open-Source Projects. Fatih will give us a roadmap of the year to come and where you can make the most significant impact as a contributing member of the CDF Community.

With DevOps transforming the way we work with a focus on speed to market, how do we ensure the right level of quality in the system? In this meetup we will be joined by Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect for DevOps for Enterprise Systems. She will discuss some of the lessons learned and experiences on improving overall quality while achieving speed of delivery. She will use case studies, including existing backend systems running on IBM Z, that she has included in her new book “Enterprise Bug Busting – From testing through CI/CD” to deliver business results. For more information on Rosalind visit her LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosalind-radcliffe/.

Meet Ewelina Wilkosz, Jenkins Governance Board Member and open source contributor. Ewelina shares her journey on how she become a developer, open source contributor and now a member of the distinguished Jenkins Board. Ewalina has a gentle message for other women who are considering a career in this area and how important an open source community can be towards building that career.

Srinivas Kambhampati, Lead Customer Success at OpsMx, explains GitOps and how Spinnaker can drive the DevOps process around a GitOps model.

In this meetup Steve Terrana, the mastermind behind the JTE, gives us an amazing demo of how it works and how you can build out a templated Jenkins workflow that works for everyone.

For more Continuous Delivery Foundation content, check out our blog: https://cd.foundation/blog/

Building and then implementing a DevOps pipeline is only the beginning of your journey. Understanding your pipeline analytics is just as important and can be a key factor to your overall success and adoption. In this meetup, Chris Riley, Splunk DevOps Advocate, will help us understand pipeline analytics including:
· How pipeline analytics are a necessary practice in all high-performing DevOps environments
· How to select the right metrics to measure DevOps success
· And how to implement build a Pipeline Analytics strategy

Join Fatih Degirmenci, Co-Chair CDF Interoperability SIG, on an introduction to using standard policies across the DevOps pipeline. Fatih explains the need for standard policies and introduces the concept of a standard policy framework to improve the management of policies in the CI/CD process. Links to more information and how to get involved in the discussion can be found at: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aJbdTRV7LxjsL7ptBViUSRWxK7qTD2UQSR0LawOKgnE/edit#slide=id.gc7a0ab3b04_1_268

Events in CI/CD as explained by Andreas Grabner with a focus on Keptn. Andreas provides a thorough review of Keptn, how Dynatrace has implemented Keptn and the basis of their event driven CD.

Join Deborah Chaskin, Scrum Master and Agile Consultant, as she explores how agile practices may need to adapt to embrace microservice development. Deborah covers the agile mind set and how we need to shift our thinking as we shift our development methods. Aired on January 12, 2021.

Learn how to educate, inspire and transform a large organization to become true Ninja software warriors where DevOps and Continuous Delivery becomes the kata of success. Presented by Gurushyam Mony https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurushyam-mony-4176123/

Kubernetes is a game changer. New practices, tooling and habits will be needed to scale DevOps to support a cloud native infrastructure. In this meetup, Isaac Gaskin, Site Reliability Engineer, Tesla, will introduce GitOps concepts and Argo CD to automate the deployment of applications to Kubernetes clusters. This presentation will not only give us insights around Kubernetes, but also the new tooling and practices that large enterprises are embracing to support DevOps at Scale.

Isaac has served as a Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer for high tech companies including Tesla, GoPro and Code42. Learn more about Isaac at https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacgaskin/

Large Organizations that have grown organically have a complex technology landscape and an ingrained culture that poses challenges to adopting SRE ways of working. Shivagami Gugan is an Aviation IT Technologist who has experience in transforming large teams. She has international experience in building Digital and IT organizational strategies and in delivering large technical portfolios in mission critical environments. She has devised software engineering and outsourcing strategies, led service management implementations and her current focus is to help teams adopt DevOps, SRE practices and hybrid cloud across a varied application landscape. This meetup will help if you would like to discuss about challenges related to transforming the people mind-set or about building robust DevOps platform to help convert Monoliths to Microservices.

This CD Foundation Meetup covers how Robert Krall from Rocket Software built out a test automation process using Jenkins and Pytest. Robert’s journey into continuous delivery started as a developer and shifted to CD automation when a better testing process was required. He will show us how to build out an automated testing pipeline that spans multiple operating systems, even connecting to z/OS and DB2 for big data applications. If you are striving to automate your test steps from your CD Pipeline, this meetup will be extremely helpful in seeing how to put it all together.

Jenkins users, are you ready to containerize your continuous delivery pipeline? In this video Per Bergman, Sr. Architect at Zilker Technology reviews using Jenkins X. If you have been hearing about Jenkins X and considering a shift from traditional Jenkins, this meetup will help you start moving in the right direction

Matthew Barker of Palo Alto Networks explains how to incorporate security into your Continuous Delivery pipeline starting from container scanning to run-time monitoring with a feed back loop. If you are moving to containers, this is a must see. You will learn why you no longer need to worry about security in a Kubernetes containerized environment. March 5th, 2020.

Istio is a key gatekeeper and routing engine for Microservices running in Kubernetes. Nate Martin, CEO of Sagecore Technologies, explains their early implementation of Istio with successes and challenges. It was held in January 2020 by the New Mexico CI/CD Community Meetup, hosted by DeployHub(DeployHub.com) and BigByte (bigbyte.cc).

Future events of the New Mexico CI/CD Community Meetup can be found at https://www.meetup.com/nm-cdf-Area-Meetup/