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Jul 10

Intro to Jenkins Training Course Enrolls Over 5,000 in First Month

By Blog, Staff

Linux Foundation Training and Continuous Delivery Foundation launched a free training course on the edX platform, LFS167x – Introduction to Jenkins, on June 4. In that time, the course has already enrolled 5,000 students, making it one of the fastest-growing courses we have ever released. This is great news for helping to grow the Jenkins and overall DevOps communities.

The course covers the fundamentals of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), and how they help transform the overall software delivery process. It is most useful for roles such as DevOps engineers, software developers and architects, and professionals focused on site reliability and quality assurance, though anyone involved in the software delivery process will benefit. It includes a detailed introduction to the Jenkins automation server, and also provides instructions on how to set up/use Jenkins for CI/CD workflows. 

Upon completion, enrollees will have a solid understanding of the role that Jenkins plays in the software development lifecycle, how to install a Jenkins server, how to build software with it, how to manage third party integrations/plugins and how to scale and secure Jenkins. They will also get a glimpse of what they can do to further enhance their CI/CD skills.Ā 

Join the more than 5,000 individuals who have started improving their software delivery processes – enroll for free today!

Jul 08

Introducing Our Newest CDF Ambassador – Romnick Acabado

By Blog, Staff

Hi CI/CD Fans,

I’m Romnick Acabado, a DevOps Leader and IT Manager from Lingaro Philippines. I use my strengths, passion, and purpose in exploring, learning, and sharing DevOps practices to improve the lives of the people who are involved within the flow of business ideas to the best quality of user experience.

In short, I would like to help to improve the lives of people all over the world through modern IT.

This year marks my tenth year in my IT professional career. Learning DevOps practices becomes my priority as we call our team a “DevOps Team.”

Everything starts with awareness, and you will only know your team’s position, validate your overall experience and challenges on something when you are exposed to the external community.

When I was studying, I was very active in joining student societies to give additional value to our community. I have never imagined that I could continue it in the corporate world because of my doubts.

Last 2019, I worked a lot on how I can improve my confidence, and I believe that the actions that I took helped me to believe in myself, leverage my strengths (analytical, responsibility, relater, communication & learning) and competencies while outworking my potentials. So in the latter part of 2019, I found the Ambassador Program of DevOps Institute, and I tried to sign-up. Forest Jing and Dheeraj Nayal were too accommodating to assist me in the process. I have been a fan of the learning model of 70-20-10, where 20% of learning a skill usually comes from your relationship and connections to experts, so I thought that it is about time not to limit my connections within my company. Luckily, I was selected, and I have successfully joined the program.

I have focused on improving myself and continuously be an asset wherever I am engaged, and I am happy that the DOI’s Chief Ambassador has recognized it:

As I continue to build my branding and represent our organization in DevOps, I have embraced my role as one of the leaders in the Philippines to support and promote the DevOps movement.

I created a website, where I share my exploration and DevOps journey. I also maintain a Facebook and Twitter account.

You can also join my Meetup group DevOps SKIL Up PH, where I want to build a community of DevOps practitioners and leaders in our country to help each other through upskilling.

I’m joining the CDF as an ambassador because I believe that DOI and what they advocate are intersecting. I even see my co-ambassadors in both communities. I am confident that through CDF, I will be able to learn more and share my knowledge about CI/CD tools, which are essential in the DevOps design.

I also see the alignment of my vision, mission, and my values about creativity, being solution-oriented and collaborative in these communities.

Being a life-long learner, I know that I will continue to learn with the experts in this community, and I will be able to give value as well through my time and expertise. It’s always fun to be surrounded by like-minded DevOps professionals.

For the past months, I was able to join the DevOps summit and panel discussion in our DevOps communities at the DevOps Summit in April 2020 and DevOps India Summit. I’ll also be speaking at the DevOps upcoming Virtual DevOps Summit on November 2-3.

You can connect to me through my LinkedIn account for future collaboration about DevOps, CI/CD, or analytics solutions.

Good luck to your DevOps journey and see you at future CDF events. It’s my pleasure to represent and be part of this great community! šŸ˜‰

Jun 30

Introducing Our Newest CDF Ambassador ā€“ Steven Terrana

By Blog, Staff

Heyyo!

My name is Steven Terrana. Itā€™s great to be here! Iā€™m currently a DevSecOps & Platforms Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton.

My day to day largely consists of working with teams to implement large-scale CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, implementing DevSecOps principles, and adopting all the buzzwords :).

Through experiencing all of the pains associated with the ā€œlarge-scaleā€ pipeline development, I developed the Jenkins Templating Engine: a Jenkins plugin that allows users to stop copying and pasting Jenkinsfiles by creating tool-agnostic, pipeline templates that can be shared across teams enabling organizational governance while optimizing for developer autonomy. If that sounds cool, you can check out the Jenkins Online Meetup.

You can probably find me somewhere in the Jenkins community. I help drive the Pipeline Authoring SIG and contribute to community plugins and pipeline documentation where I can.

Iā€™m excited to be a part of an organization in CDF thatā€™s helping to establish best practices, propel the adoption of continuous delivery tooling, and facilitate interoperability across emerging technologies to streamline software delivery.

Oh, yeah, and I have two cats and a turtle. Meet James Bond, GG, and Sheldon:

Follow me on Twitter @steven_terrana

Jun 19

Introducing Our Newest CDF Ambassador ā€“ Alex Jones

By Blog, Staff

Hello folks,

My name is Alex and I am excited to be a part of the Continuous Delivery Foundation community. I believe that the work we do here will help the world deliver faster through interoperability of technology and foundational component governance.

I am an open source contributor to many projects and also advocate for the work of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. I hold it a great privilege to help give a platform for those without a voice and act as a force multiplier to create opportunities for others.

I have worked for the past thirteen years at Microsoft, BSkyB, Blinkbox, Beamery and more. Working as both an individual contributor and engineering leader.

Now I am an engineering director at American Express.
I work on large scale serverless runtime observability, proliferating DevOps practices and hybrid-cloud cluster development on hyper-converged infrastructure.

It is my hope that I can bring real end-user community desires and feedback to the governance body of the CDF to help us understand and shape the activities that we invest time in. Equally I am looking forward to working as an ambassador to help the community gain tangible benefits of a collaborative vendor-neutral continuous delivery ecosystem.

– Alex

Near my home in the beautiful south of England.

Jun 19

Introducing Our Newest CDF Ambassador ā€“ Hector Calderon

By Blog, Staff

Hi All,

I am Hector Calderon, an engineer, architect, or insert open source loving nerd adjective here. I have worked with companies of all sizes from small to enterprise. With a vendor/cloud agnostic mentality, I have had the chance to work with many open source projects, including all of the graduate CDF projects. When I am not trying to automate myself out of a position I am out exploring the world with my dog, Piper. 

My delivery journey started a few years ago when I was assigned to optimize RPM libraries for modernizing mainframes.. Yes, MAINFRAMES. Itā€™s actually a lot cooler than it sounds and I had the opportunity to work with some of the best engineers I know to this day. 

Over the years and various companies, I noticed the most important requirement for delivering success is largely based upon the mentality of the team and company (below is a meme we put on the back of our CI team shirts). Note, huge fan of Napoleon Hill’s QQMA formula – quality, quantity, and mental attitude.Ā 

At the end of the day everybody wants a high-quality product at a fast speed with least amount of overhead. 

I have not been much of a contributor in the past, but now I am looking to give back to the community that has taught me so much. My objective as Ambassador is to make delivery easier for everyone. Feel free to reach out.

Stay safe and stay tuned for my next post.

Jun 18

Join Us at Spinnaker Live TODAY!

By Announcement, Blog, Staff

Find out why 2020 is the year of Spinnaker at https://Spinnaker.Live on June 18th at 9:00am PDT. Learn how enterprises accelerate with open source Spinnaker at this Linux Foundation virtual conference co-hosted by the CD Foundation and Armory.

Register now!

“The CD Foundation seeks to improve the worldā€™s capacity to deliver software with security and speed,ā€ said Rosalind Benoit, Director of Community at Armory, and Chair of the CD Foundation Outreach Committee. ā€œSpinnaker.Live speaks to everyone invested in software delivery collaboration and automation. Open source is powered by connections, and this event is to meet, connect, and hear great stories. Please bring your energy and ideas to this incredible global community!”

Spinnaker is a free and open source continuous delivery software platform developed by Netflix and Google to create tailor-made, collaborative continuous delivery pipelines. With unique multi-cloud building blocks, it integrates all the tools, approvals, and infrastructure needed to automate an enterprise software delivery lifecycle.

Spinnaker is housed under the CD Foundation umbrella at the Linux Foundation. It is a Founding Project of the CD Foundation. 

Continued Growth in 2020

Spinnaker is continuing to grow in 2020, boasting more contributors and more Pull Requests than ever before.

Key statistics for 2020

  • Q1 2020 was the first quarter since Spinnaker was open sourced that the project had at least 2 new contributors each week
  • Of the 1,183 contributors to Spinnaker in the last year, 464, or 40%, contributed in Q1 2020
  • Merged Pull Requests have skyrocketed in 2020. These are the code and documentation contributions that the project accepts and incorporates.
    • Average since open sourced: 399/month
    • Average in the last 12 months: 605/month
      • Previous high was 656 (March 2019, 1.6x the average since being open sourced)
    • February 674 (1.7x avg)
    • March 891 (2.2x avg)
    • April 962 (2.5x avg)
    • May 755 (1.9x avg)

Notable Amazon Support

Spinnaker has been implemented widely with well known companies like Adobe, AirBnb, Autodesk, Comcast, Salesforce, SAP, and many more using Spinnaker to handle the software delivery life cycle. Of note, Amazon Web Service (AWS) has dramatically increased contributions to Spinnaker in 2020. 

Up-to-date statistics are available on Devstats. They show a strong spike coming into 2020 in AWS contributions, with pull requests in recent months more than tripling 2019ā€™s monthly highs. Amazon has stated publicly that they are backing Spinnaker due to strong enterprise customer demand. 

AWS will be prominently represented at Spinnaker.Live with a keynote, breakout session, panel, and use case talks from AWS experts and companies who deploy software to AWS. Donā€™t miss it!

Register Now!

Jun 11

Letā€™s Continuous CI/CD in China!

By Blog, Staff

We held the first CI/CD Meetup in China on February 29th. There were more than 5000 attendees who joined us together.Ā  It is time to do more CI/CD, so we will hold the second CI/CD Meetup in China on June 19th.

There will be four topics focused on: Pipeline, CI, SCM, and Automation Testing.Ā 

1. Build a dedicated pipeline engine: Jenkins shared library in-depth design and practice

Combining actual business, design patterns, and Jenkins features step by step, tells how to support large-scale, complex pipelined practice based on Jenkins SharedLibrary expansion library: from how native solutions solve actual business needs to structured design to solve atoms. The minimum unit) abstraction and basic capabilities are enhanced, and then to dynamic refactoring to build a pipeline execution engine.

Gu Zheng

JD Software Architect

2. Construction of engineering efficiency data in Continuous Integration

Engineering performance data is an important tool for improving R&D efficiency. Through years of tool construction, Didi has already possessed a relatively complete R&D tool chain, and the improvement of engineering efficiency has shifted from the original single-point capability optimization to the optimization of the entire process. As the most important continuous integration and continuous release process in the entire R&D process, how to perceive and improve it through data driving will be the key to continuously improve the engineering efficiency.

Zhou Fan

Didi Chuxing, Development Tool Team Leader

Personal profile: Graduated from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in communications engineering. After graduation, he joined Google directly. He has worked in the Beijing office and the US headquarters for more than 10 years. Gained experience in development, testing and operation and maintenance. In 2018, he joined Didi Chuxing as the head of the R&D tool team, leading the team to improve the company’s R&D tools and engineering efficiency.

3. Ways to improve software quality: code review

Code review is a common topic, so why exactly do code review, how to do it, how to improve efficiency, those that can be manual, those that can be automated, what detailed considerations, let industry veterans take you around.

Li Peng

Senior experts in SCM and DevOps

Personal profile

With more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, he has comprehensive experience in development, operation, maintenance and management. He has worked in many companies such as Xin’an Century, Motorola, Ericsson, Alpha Motors, Horizon Robotics and so on. Familiar with the industry’s CMMI, TL9000, ISO9001: 2000 standards, proficient in various development methodologies; proficient in software quality management, configuration management, CICD, automated testing and other key aspects of DevOps.

4. Test environment, practice and implementation of full-stack DevOps platform

Introduce the development and testing side of Minsheng Bank, the DevOps platform architecture, core capabilities, and implementation. There are currently more than 4,000 active users on the DevOps platform; more than 240 supported projects; full-stack support for back-end, front-end and client.

Hu Wenan

Minsheng Bank, DevOps architect

Personal profile:

Hu Wenan, DevOps Architect of Minsheng Bank, is responsible for organization-level R&D specifications and process formulation, as well as the planning and construction of the PaaS platform and DevOps platform.

Register Now (in Chinese): https://www.bagevent.com/event/6518004?bag_track=bagevent

Jun 09

Introducing Our Newest CDF Ambassador ā€“ Oscar Medina

By Blog, Staff

Hi Everyone,

My name is Oscar Medina, and I am thrilled to be part of this fantastic community. I have spent over 22 years in the technology industry, and have seen things come and go.

One thing that excites me these days (aside from the plethora of outdoor activities), is the paradigm shift Iā€™ve seen throughout my career when it comes to systems architecture.Ā Ā 

Microservices and container orchestration is not going away as other things have.Ā This is why I am committed to spreading the word and helping educate folks on what the Continuous Delivery Foundation is all about.

Over the past 4.5 years or so, I have spent a lot of time in the open-source world. I am currently a Developer Advocate for the Jenkins X project, which is also now under the CD Foundation umbrella along with other projects such as Spinnaker, Jenkins, Tekton, and Jenkins X, of course.

I look forward to meeting you at different organized events, virtual or hopefully in person in the future.

Standup Paddle Boarding on Lake Tahoe, California

My coding buddy, Ginger loves the outdoors too!

Cheers,
Oscar

Jun 08

Introducing Our Newest CDF Ambassador ā€“ BMK Lakshminarayanan

By Blog, Staff

Hello CDF Members,

I am BMK Lakshminarayanan from New Zealand. I am excited to join on the other great ambassadors’ line-up with Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) as a newly appointed CDF Ambassador.

About me:

I am a passionate Solutions Architect over 20 years of ICT experience working with Bank of New Zealand. I am a hands-on engineer, architect and worked on various challenging assignments ranging from desktop applications to distributed systems.

I am #DevOps #ContinuousDelivery advocate and evangelist for modern engineering & developer practices including helping developer productive, effective and efficient at the same time simple methods, approaches to software architecture.

I am passionate about sharing and learning with the community. Outside of my work, I run community groups and host CNCF New Zealand #meetup for Cloud-Native enthusiasts and The Future ICT to help students, people returning to work or looking for career opportunities in ICT.

I am also CNCF & DevOps Institue ambassador with a commitment to connecting the Humans of DevOps and Modern IT to advance the Skills, Knowledge, Ideas & Learning (SKIL). I am a frequent speaker at local meetups and international in-person & virtual conferences and also the Core organiser of DevOpsDays New Zealand and co-chair Cloud-Native Summit Wellington conferences. I am passionate about engaging, connecting & learning with various community members & leaders.

I am excited to associate with CDF as an Ambassador in promoting core values of CDF, open-source and vendor-neutral CI/CD tools. I am enthusiastic about the opportunity of contributing to and supporting the global community of CD Foundation & growing continuous delivery ecosystem.

Let us learn, share, care and grow together.

Please feel free to reach me out on LinkedIn or Twitter: @LBMKRISHNA