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CloudBees’ DevOps World 2020: CI/CD, Jenkins and ‘Extreme Ownership’
Agility, resiliency and automation are certainly critical components for successful DevOps, but they also are but means to an end. Ultimately, the goal is to improve continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) and, consequently, business value.
Considering all companies today are really software companies, successful enterprises must thus continually find ways to improve software delivery to offer a better user experience in order to survive competitively.
“Delivering high-quality software really is a prerequisite for businesses today,” Mitchell Ashley, CEO and founder of the analyst firm Accelerated Strategies Group, said during a keynote at DevOps World 2020 this week. “Almost virtually every business has some impact in use of software, especially those that are creating for their own strategies that benefit.”
In addition to talks and discussions about how to improve CI/CD, the use of Jenkins to meet DevOps goals was also one of the major conference themes. All told, Jenkins also continues to emerge as the leading CI/CD tool, which, according to a Cloud Native Computing Foundation survey, had a 58% market share in 2019. During a conference keynote, CloudBees’ Shawn Ahmed, senior vice president and general manager for its Software Delivery Automation Group (SDA), said Jenkins market share is now 71%. Jenkins for CI/CD means “you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — Jenkins is the wheel,” he said. “You can automate and orchestrate everything across the software delivery lifecycle,” he said.
The month of August also marked the first time the number of Jenkins pipelines, or jobs that allow the users to define the who development lifecycle, was greater than the number of “freestyle jobs,” or one-off workflows being run on Jenkins. About 17.3 million pipelines in existence compared to 17.1 freestyle jobs (while the actual number of the jobs running total are an estimated 10 to 100 times more times than the number of jobs), according to Jenkins usage statistics.
CloudBees also introduced new tools for CI/CD and Jenkins during the week of the conference. The product announcements included CloudBees’ expansion of its CI/CD platform to include new security features, such as “audit-ready” pipeline capabilities. CloudBees’ software delivery management modules for its software delivery management platform became generally available this week, with the addition of CRM-like features for CI/CD tools.
However, as DevOps team members know very well, tools and processes are just one of the starting points for successful CI/CD. Every organization’s legacy technologies, culture and demands are inherently different, for example. Case studies gleaned by studying lessons learned at Netflix does not hurt, but they will very likely not serve as cookie-cutter solutions your organization will need or want, either.
#ci/cd #culture #kubernetes #profile #sponsored #jenkins
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Jenkins Is Getting Old — It’s Time to Move On
By far, Jenkins is the most adopted tool for continuous integration, owning nearly 50% of the market share. As so many developers are using it, it has excellent community support, like no other Jenkins alternative. With that, it has more than 1,500 plugins available for continuous integration and delivery purposes.
We love and respect Jenkins. After all, it’s the first tool we encountered at the beginning of our automation careers. But as things are rapidly changing in the automation field, Jenkins is** left behind with his old approach**. Even though many developers and companies are using it, most of them aren’t happy with it. Having used it ourselves on previous projects, we quickly became frustrated by its lack of functionality, numerous maintenance issues, dependencies, and scaling problems.
We decided to investigate if other developers face the same problems and quickly saw the need to create a tool ourselves. We asked some developers at last year’s AWS Summit in Berlin about this. Most of them told us that they chose Jenkins because it’s free in the first place. However, many of them expressed interest in trying to use some other Jenkins alternative.
#devops #continuous integration #jenkins #devops adoption #jenkins ci #jenkins pipeline #devops continuous integration #jenkins automation #jenkins scripts #old technology
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Travis CI vs Jenkins: Which CI/CD Tool Is Right For You?
As a DevOps professional, you need to evaluate these tools based on your budget, project requirements, and other data points. This is why we take a deep dive into Travis CI vs Jenkinscomparison to help you decide the right CI/CD tool for your project requirements.
If you are new to DevOps and are just learning the basics then I recommend you to read this detailed article on Continuous Integration And Continuous Delivery. Without further ado, let’s get started.
What Is Jenkins?
Jenkins is a popular open-source CI/CD tool that is in usage for a long time. The tool is written entirely in Java. Jenkins has a powerful set of features that can be used to build, test, and integrate changes in a project.
It is the go-to choice for startups as it is free to use, supports a wide range of plugins, and is backed by a vibrant community. Developers get the chance to set up a CI/CD environment in Jenkins. Jenkins is available for a wide range of platforms – Windows, macOS, and various flavors of Unix (i.e. Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, and more).
Another major of Jenkins is its extensibility with plugins. Like other open-source projects, Jenkins maintains two release lines – weekly and LTS (Long Term Support). At the time of this article, the latest version of Jenkins (LTS) was 2.235.1.
Salient features of Jenkins
- Open source and free for use.
- Extensive plugin ecosystem.
- Vibrant community.
- Supports parallel execution.
- Ease to set up.
- Offers REST API.
- Can be configured using Jenkinsfile.
#devops #continous delivery #jenkins ci #ci cd #travis ci #continous deployment #jenkins architecture
1601205240
CloudBees’ DevOps World 2020: CI/CD, Jenkins and ‘Extreme Ownership’
Agility, resiliency and automation are certainly critical components for successful DevOps, but they also are but means to an end. Ultimately, the goal is to improve continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) and, consequently, business value.
Considering all companies today are really software companies, successful enterprises must thus continually find ways to improve software delivery to offer a better user experience in order to survive competitively.
“Delivering high-quality software really is a prerequisite for businesses today,” Mitchell Ashley, CEO and founder of the analyst firm Accelerated Strategies Group, said during a keynote at DevOps World 2020 this week. “Almost virtually every business has some impact in use of software, especially those that are creating for their own strategies that benefit.”
In addition to talks and discussions about how to improve CI/CD, the use of Jenkins to meet DevOps goals was also one of the major conference themes. All told, Jenkins also continues to emerge as the leading CI/CD tool, which, according to a Cloud Native Computing Foundation survey, had a 58% market share in 2019. During a conference keynote, CloudBees’ Shawn Ahmed, senior vice president and general manager for its Software Delivery Automation Group (SDA), said Jenkins market share is now 71%. Jenkins for CI/CD means “you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — Jenkins is the wheel,” he said. “You can automate and orchestrate everything across the software delivery lifecycle,” he said.
The month of August also marked the first time the number of Jenkins pipelines, or jobs that allow the users to define the who development lifecycle, was greater than the number of “freestyle jobs,” or one-off workflows being run on Jenkins. About 17.3 million pipelines in existence compared to 17.1 freestyle jobs (while the actual number of the jobs running total are an estimated 10 to 100 times more times than the number of jobs), according to Jenkins usage statistics.
CloudBees also introduced new tools for CI/CD and Jenkins during the week of the conference. The product announcements included CloudBees’ expansion of its CI/CD platform to include new security features, such as “audit-ready” pipeline capabilities. CloudBees’ software delivery management modules for its software delivery management platform became generally available this week, with the addition of CRM-like features for CI/CD tools.
However, as DevOps team members know very well, tools and processes are just one of the starting points for successful CI/CD. Every organization’s legacy technologies, culture and demands are inherently different, for example. Case studies gleaned by studying lessons learned at Netflix does not hurt, but they will very likely not serve as cookie-cutter solutions your organization will need or want, either.
#ci/cd #culture #kubernetes #profile #sponsored #jenkins
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How To Setup a CI/CD Pipeline With Kubernetes 2020 - DZone DevOps
When it comes to DevOps, the word that clicks in mind is CI/CD pipeline. Let’s have a look at Definition of CI/CD pipeline:
CI is straightforward and stands for continuous integration, a practice that focuses on making preparing a release easier. But CD can either mean continuous delivery or continuous deployment and while those two practices have a lot in common, they also have a significant difference that can have critical consequences for a business.
CI stands for Continuous Integration, and CD stands for Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment. You can think of it as a process which is similar to a software development lifecycle.
Systems provide automation of the software build and validation process-driven continuously by running a configured sequence of operations every time a software change is checked into the source code management repository. These are closely associated with agile development practices and closely related to the emerging DevOps toolsets.
In the DevOps world, we have a plethora of toolsets that can help and leverage CICD capabilities.
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Proxies
- Git
- Jenkins/ Jenkins X
- Ansible
- Chef
- Code Pipeline, etc
This blog gives direction to up and running your CICD pipeline running on the Kubernetes cluster by the GitLab CICD pipeline.
Prerequisites
- Hands-on knowledge of Docker containers
- Hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and understanding
- The Idea of how to write YAML files
- Up and Running Kubernetes cluster
#docker #kubernetes #ci/cd #devops tools #devops 2020 #ci/cd pipeline
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Jenkins Is Getting Old—and We Need an Alternative
By far, Jenkins is the most adopted tool for continuous integration, owning nearly 50% of the market share. As so many developers are using it, it has excellent community support, like no other Jenkins alternative. With that, it has more than 1,500 plugins available for continuous integration and delivery purposes.
We love and respect Jenkins. After all, it’s the first tool we encountered at the beginning of our automation careers. But as things are rapidly changing in the automation field, Jenkins is left behind with his old approach. Even though many developers and companies are using it, most of them aren’t happy with it. Having used it ourselves on previous projects, we quickly became frustrated by its lack of functionality,** numerous maintenance issues**,** dependencies,** and scaling problems.
We decided to investigate if other developers face the same problems and quickly saw the need to create a tool ourselves. We asked some developers at last year’s AWS Summit in Berlin about this. Most of them told us that they chose Jenkins because it’s free in the first place. However, many of them expressed interest in trying to use some other Jenkins alternative.
When using Jenkins, teams tend to make more mistakes with the delivery and end up with broken pipelines. As a result, they implement inefficient practices, can’t adopt agility well, and lose the flexibility to innovate. When problems come up, you instantly need an expert that will resolve the issues to unblock developers.
#knowledge #ci/cd #ci/cd pipeline #devops #devops automation #devops tools #jenkins #microservices