My name is Zhao Xiaojie (Rick). I’m a software engineer at Alauda, which is responsible for developing a CI/CD platform. I’m the leader of the Chinese Localization SIG and a press contact for Jenkins in China, too, where a large developer community exists invisible from the west!
I am passionate about promoting the Jenkins community and have done so in several ways, such as running Jenkins official social media channels, encouraging people to contribute tech articles, giving speeches about Jenkins at related conferences, and maintaining the Chinese Jenkins website.
I am also the author of several open source projects such as the Simplified Chinese Plugin, Jenkins CLI. And I have participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) twice as a mentor.
I’m a very active author and contributor in open source. I believe that CI/CD can speed business value shipping for all teams. Advocating CI/CD open source projects is an excellent way to help other teams and individuals adopt DevOps best practices. I enjoy giving public speeches or organizing meetups related to CI/CD. In my opinion, working with the CDF offers me a lot of opportunities to spread information about open source projects. The CDF ambassador program can help us to gather much more CI/CD fans.
Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) approved the formation of Special Interest Group (SIG) Interoperability January 14, 2020. SIG Interoperability aims to increase integration and interoperability across different tools and technologies in the open source CI/CD ecosystem. One of the prerequisites to achieve this is to provide a neutral forum, enabling dialog between projects and end-users so they can come together and discuss their use cases, needs, and challenges. This will allow projects and communities to explore additional collaboration opportunities and increase the visibility of ongoing work.
One of the means the SIG adapted to provide a forum for discussion is to invite representatives of project and end-user communities to regular SIG meetings so they can present what they are doing. The presentations are then followed by open discussions which allows community members to ask questions, raise concerns, and more importantly start talking with each other. However, one of the things the community noticed is the lack of shared terminology and vocabulary as the tools and technologies employ different terms to describe what is often the same thing.
This is actually not a surprising finding since there are many ways to greet someone and as humans if we do not understand the word being used we have the ability to observe body language, process tone, and even touch. These many different natural inputs allow us as humans to establish shared vocabulary upon which we have been able to build successful components relevant to our way of living and social norms of interacting.
Unfortunately for machines, this process is not so easy as we humans have to decide if we want to establish norms which we often surface when talking about machine interactions as protocols and best practices or requirements.
Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) practitioners have many tools at their disposal but it is often the case that what we call a pipeline in today’s tool of choice is not called the same thing in the tool we use tomorrow. Again, we can within our sphere of influence and interaction adjust for these nuances but machines talking to one another do not have that same luxury necessarily.
These are the thoughts that made contributors to SIG to work on vocabulary and terminology as the first thing right after the SIG was approved to be formed because we believe that if we can establish a shared vocabulary across the industry in CI/CD domain, we can remove the barriers between humans so we can start tackling with getting machines to talk to each other. The way this work is envisioned to be done is to collect the existing terms used by CI/CD tools and technologies in a document, and create a mapping of the terms across projects, essentially making the Rosetta Stone for CI/CD domain. We think that we can continue on this work and look for possibilities to come up with shared vocabulary in a collaborative manner.
The document SIG is working on is available in SIG Interoperability repository on GitHub and it currently contains terms for 10 CI/CD projects as shown on the table below.
Project
CircleCI
N/A
Step
Job
Workflow
Trigger
Executor
GitHub Actions
Action
Step
Job
Workflow
Event
Runner
GitLab CI/CD
N/A
Job
Stage
Pipeline
Trigger
Runner
Jenkins
N/A
Job
Stage
Pipeline
Trigger
Agent/Node
Jenkins X
N/A
Step
Stage
Pipeline
Trigger
Agent
Keptn
N/A
N/A
Task
Workflow
Event
Keptn-Service
Screwdriver
N/A
Step
Job
Pipeline
Trigger
N/A
Spinnaker
N/A
Task
Stage
Pipeline
Trigger
Cluster
Tekton
N/A
Step
Task
Pipeline
Trigger
Resource
Zuul
N/A
N/A
Job
Pipeline
Trigger
Node
Due to the fact that when organizations establish CI/CD pipelines, they employ not just CI/CD tools but also Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems, Artifact Repository Managers (ARM) and so on. That’s why we included terminology for SCM tools such as Gerrit, GitHub, and GitLab and we expect to have terms used by other tools in adjacent areas collected as well.
It is important to highlight that we consider this work as still ongoing and we encourage and welcome everyone to add terminology used by the project they use and/or are involved in to the document so we have broader coverage of the tools and technologies. If you also notice that there are things that can be improved, feel free to send a pull request to CDF SIG Interoperability repository and improve the existing documentation.
I’m Yun “Forest” Jing (景韵), a DevOps practitioner from China. I believe IT changes the world, and that DevOps changes IT.
You can read the blogFirst Online CI/CD Meetup in China Gets Over 5,000 Attendees. It is very inspiring to share knowledge and experiences in the community, so I’ve co-founded a local community called DevOps Times Community where there are almost 30,000 subscribers in our wechat official account.
I’m also a Jenkins Ambassador and DevOps Institute Ambassador, too. I’ve organized the Jenkins Area Meetup and Jenkins User Conference China for 3 years. It was an honorable moment to win the Most Valuable Advocate of Jenkins community and to be Jenkins Ambassador in 2018, as well.
I, Xuefeng “BC” Shi and Tao Lei were on DevOps World 2018 San FranciscoJenkins Ambassador Teams
My story with DevOps started from an email sent by my boss in 2014. He said, “make a study of DevOps.” And so it began.
I found an internal community in our company where architects, developers, testers, and ops could meet together to understand and learn from each other.
Logo and Slogan of Internal DevOps Community
And I didn’t forget the work assigned by my boss . I’ve led from start to release an internal DevOps Guide to help all teams to practice DevOps.
The architecture of DevOps Guide in Chinese
2017 will be a memorable year for me. DevOpsDays Beijing 2017 has lit up DevOps in China. Lots of companies shared their experience about DevOps, such as Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Huawei, etc.
Patrick Debois and Me (Master and Newbie)
From 2017, I also started to be a full-time member of the community. I’ve co-organized the local DevOps event coined the DevOps International Summit (DOIS) and Jenkins User Conference in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen to share Agile, CI/CD, AIOps, DevOps practices and experiences in China.
I’ve joined the experts group to contribute to the DevOps Capability Maturity Model organized by CAICT, as well. Lots of companies could learn how to practice according to this model.
Not only focused on China, but also built the communication bridge with the global DevOps community and companies. For this, Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Alyssa Tong have really helped a lot.
JUCC Shanghai 2017
Alan Shimel and Jayne Groll have also inspired me to introduce more experiences from China to the world and also from the world to China. So, I’m a DevOps Institute Ambassador right now. It is a great team helping to share DevOps with the world.
Hello friends! I am Marky Jackson and I am so thrilled to be one of the newest CDF ambassadors.
I have been involved in open source for many years but my start in the world was rather rocky. I had a difficult childhood. I was shuffled from one boys’ home to another and had little control over my life. But I was tough and smart, and I emancipated at an early age, which allowed me to start living the way I wanted while I was still in my teens.
I studied computer science at UCLA and MIT and then spent 14 months as an intern at Jasmine Multimedia Publishing before joining companies such as Yahoo, AT&T, HP, Symantec and more.
I am extremely excited to be a part of this program because I get to make people smile by mentoring and being positive. I love public speaking, doing a meetup in person or virtual and helping people online. I get joy when a person gets involved in the open-source community.
The open source community is all about inclusion. We welcome people to contribute, and we try to express our gratitude for their hard work. The sense of unity and belonging is second to none with developers, coders, and engineers from around the world collaborating to advance our industry.
It takes a lot of time and effort to keep the open-source community going. Most of us are working after-hours to get things done, and we need help—lots of help. People think that you have to be an expert coder to join us, but that’s not true. There are plenty of ways to take part in. You can contribute error reports, write technical documentation, or even sponsor an application. There are plenty of ways to offer support. Just ask what you can do.
I look forward to meeting everyone and collaborating! You can find me at @markyjackson5 on Twitter.
By Forest Jing, Jenkins Ambassador and JAM organizer in China
On February 29, 2020, the first CI/CD Meetup in China was successfully held online. The atmosphere of this online live streaming event was hot and welcomed. There were more than 5,000 people and 27,000 pageviews! Several CI/CD experts have shared the practices about CI, CD, and DevOps. Although affected by the COVID-19, but it could not stop everyone’s passion of learning.
CI/CD Meetup is a global community event hosted by the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), which aims to build a CI/CD ecosystem and promote CI/CD related practices and open source projects. The CI/CD Meetup in China is co-organized by Jenkins Ambassador Shi Xuefeng, Lei Tao, and Jing Yun who are also organizers of Jenkins Area Meetup in China. And DevOps Times community and GreatOps community are co-organizer of the event. We hope we could introduce CI/CD to more Chinese IT companies to improve their IT performance.
More than 5,000 people online and 27,000 pageviews Everyone is enthusiastic to leave messages and interact
Everyone likes the content and is curious to ask the lecturers: “As a programmer, why do you all have so luxuriant hairs?”
Details from the live broadcast content
Topic 1· CI/CD Practice of Large Mobile App
Shi Xuefeng, Engineering Efficiency Director of JD.COM,Jenkins Ambassador and Core author of DevOps Capability Maturity Model
First of all, Shi Xuefeng brought the wonderful topic of “Large Mobile App CI/CD.”
In the mobile era, mobile applications have become the main battlefield of business. In this activity, Xuefeng shared how is the CI/CD of a super large app is designed and implemented.
Topic 2· The implementation and practice of Agile && DevOps at CITIC Bank
Shi Lilong,Senior Expert, Software Development Center, CITIC Bank
Subsequently, Shi Lilong, a senior expert at the software development center of CITIC Bank, brought a wonderful sharing of “the implementation and practice of Agile and DevOps in CITIC Bank”.
Mr. Shi Lilong shared the overall promotion of CITIC Bank in Agile and DevOps, and the end-to-end tool chain of CITIC Bank.
Topic 3: How do large-scale financial and Internet companies conduct product library management?
Wang Qing,JFrog Chief Architect in China
Wang Qing, Chief Architect of JFrog China, brought a wonderful sharing of “How do large financial and Internet companies manage product libraries?”
Due to the large number of R & D personnel and large types of products delivered by large financial companies and Internet companies, the application dependent libraries and product libraries have become complicated and difficult to manage. After the implementation of many enterprise-level user product libraries, the advanced functions of the work-in-progress library solve the above problems and open up the second pulse of continuous delivery.
Topic 4: Watch out! 10 obstacles in DevOps Transformation
Shi Jingfeng, Senior DevOps expert in GreatOPS Community
Mr. Shi Jingfeng brought a wonderful sharing of “Watch out! 10 obstacles in DevOps Transformation.”
During the these days, many companies have started to work from home. Various obstacles appeared on the first day of WFH. The conference system was unstable, VPN connection was not available, remote desktops were queued, and the phone was busy. The implementation of DevOps seemed make all of these very easy . Jingfeng thinks that DevOps is like a journey, there are both beautiful attractions and obstacles. It is difficult to save yourself by not paying attention to the obstacles? How these pain points are addressed based on the DevOps Capability Maturity Model.
DevOps Capability Maturity Model
Experts Q&A
The last topic is a CI/CD expert question and answer part. All experts will answer the questions raised.
Experts solve problems for everyone online
Finally, the last group photo of the experts, the CI/CD Meetup online salon was successfully held.
This event was co-sponsored by the CDF, DevOps Times community, and GreatOPS community. Thanks to the strong support of JFrog and Tencent Cloud Community.
The last story of the first CI/CD Meetup in China.
Jenkins Ambassadors
Shi Xuefeng (BC), Lei Tao and Forest Jing are the Jenkins Ambassador who are always organizing JAM in China. We all visited DevOps World Lisbon. At the event, we met Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Alyssa Tong. So we discussed to introduce CI/CD Meetup into China. It is a fantastic event.
Chinese DevOps Experts with KK in DevOps World Lisbon
I am so excited to engage with all of you members associated with the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) as a newly appointed CDF Ambassador.
Let me introduce myself to you !
I am currently working full-time as the Global community Ambassador and Region Head of APJ & MEA region at DevOps Institute, which is the world’s fastest and largest growing DevOps professional’s association consisting of vibrant Humans of DevOps community located worldwide.
I hold expertise as an emerging best practices evangelist and in building massive global, social and online communities with the commitment to connect the Humans of DevOps and Modern IT to advance the Skills, Knowledge, Ideas & Learning (SKIL) with ease, sharing and extensive collaboration. I am a frequent Speaker at local and international conferences and also the Core organizer of Global SKILup Day and Chief Evangelist of Ambassador program by DevOps Institute. Some of my public presentations are also available on YouTube for reference. I am passionate about engaging with various community members & leaders spanned across Industries and domains worldwide.
In 2019, I traversed across the world for various speaking and organizing engagements for the community & Partners with key regions like US, Europe and executed a Asia-Pacific roadshow spanning across India, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia & New Zealand. Some of the glimpses from last year engagements while you can find more on my LinkedIn updates.
I am so excited to associate with CDF as an Ambassador for a variety of reasons. The core values of CDF with an Open-governance and vendor neutral model and providing guidance and resources to foster collaboration and eventually empowering developers, teams to produce and release high quality software is an unprecedented and fantastic initiative.
Since, I have been part of the global communities across multiple domains and regions as a member, facilitator, committee members, organizer – I am enthusiastic to contribute and support the global community of CD Foundation. As a CDF Ambassador, I would like to amplify and resonate the core values of CD Foundation to reach wider audience and networks while building an inclusive community of developers, vendors, Industry Partners, members and end users facilitating sustainable projects that are part of the broad and growing continuous delivery ecosystem.
I would love to engage with each one of you actively across platforms either in your nearby locations or at an upcoming Conferences or meetups or Online summit where I am either participating, speaking or organizing. There is so much to look forward to and so much more to share, learn and advance together as the Humans of CD Foundations. You can find me in some of the upcoming conferences or meetups below which are confirmed and also can connect with me on LinkedIn or Twitter with below details.
By Jacqueline Salinas, CDF Director of Ecosystem & Community Development
Dear CDF Members –
Please welcome the first cohort of CDF Community Ambassadors (CDF CA)! You might be wondering what exactly is a CDF Community Ambassador (CDF CA)? Well, a CA is a passionate volunteer, representative of CDF, and Meetup super host & organizer. The vision of the CA program is to help grow the network of passionate CI/CD communities and connect them through various efforts that the CD Foundation is launching in 2020. The CD Foundation sees these CA’s as the troops on the ground rallying the community together. They are stewards of CI/CD education & best practices for their local community, active open source project contributors, and leaders helping drive awareness of open source projects.
These 13 folks have stepped up and committed to helping grow awareness about the CD Foundation, as well as, help us deploy new Meetup user groups in new locations as an effort to drive more events globally. These CA’s will continue to deliver CI/CD education to their local community and most importantly help recruit new Meetup members. These volunteers are vital to the CI/CD community and to the CD Foundation! Help me give them a warm welcome to the CD Foundation community. To help you get to know our CDF Community Ambassadors better, look for their individual blogs coming in the next few weeks.
Prefer a more active role? Learn more about what it takes to become a CDF Community Ambassador. Here’s more about what the role of the CDF Community Ambassador entails:
o The Community Go-To Resource for People Interested in CDF
As a Community Ambassador, you will be an important resource to people interested in the CDF and its corresponding projects. We will provide you with training on how to best represent the CDF and provide discount codes for you to attend CDF-sponsored events.
o Help Local Users Learn More About CDF
As a Community Ambassador, you will organize and host a local CDF Users Group meetup. The CDF will provide resources to help you set up your meetup and ongoing support such as swag credits and reimbursements for costs associated with running a community event.
o Represent the Community Publicly
As a Community Ambassador, you will be a public-facing community representative. You can choose the way you are most comfortable representing CDF whether that’s through public speaking or written content such as blogs. We will work with you to find the best fit and provide you with resources to help you be successful as either a speaker, a writer, or both!
Last year on the 12th of March 2019, the Continuous Delivery Foundation was launched at the Open Source Leadership Summit. Community leaders from Spinnaker, Jenkins, Tekton and Jenkins X came together to kick off the CDF as the new home for open source collaboration in CI/CD.
Since then we have made a lot of progress – earlier this year we produced our first annual report that showcases our efforts from our first few months. We also produced the first CD Foundation Interactive Landscape to help clarify the tools needed to adopt a fully automated CD process.
We didn’t stop there! Our CI/CD meetups are now at 25,000+ members in 67 groups spread across 30 countries! There’s probably a CI/CD meetup nearby you. Come participate!
We also have Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in Interoperability, Security, and Machine Learning (MLOps) as ways for people to participate in specific areas of expertise or interest.
And we’ve had a wide array of new members and new projects join. Membership spans a broad range of industries, international markets, and sizes of organizations. New members in the past year include Japanese Global 500 IT services provider Fujitsu, Integration Platform-as-a-Service provider Boomi, DevOps platform Cycloid, the Association of DevOps Professionals, the DevOps Institute, Global commerce leader eBay, leading global financial services firm JPMorgan Chase, and Open Source components management company Whitesource.
These new General Members bring the membership total to 33 and join Premier Members CapitalOne, CircleCI, Cloudbees, Fujitsu, Google, Huawei, IBM, jFrog, Netflix and Salesforce in working together to make continuous delivery tools and processes as accessible and reliable as possible and grow the overall ecosystem.
And just last month Screwdriver joined as our first incubation project. Screwdriver is a self-contained, pluggable service to help developers build, test, and continuously deliver software using the latest containerization technologies. Screwdriver was originally developed by Yahoo, now Verizon Media, as simplified interfacing for Jenkins. It was open sourced in 2016 and completely rebuilt to handle deployments at scale along with CI/CD goals.
Where are we headed? In our first year we have mapped out our 9 strategic objectives and our one year anniversary is a great way to round up how we are doing working towards them.
Drive Continuous Delivery Adoption – The CDF Interactive Landscape was one big initiative kicked off this year to help clarify the tools needed to adopt a fully automated CD process.
Champion Diversity & Inclusion – Initiatives in this space include diversity scholarships for our events and participation in Outreachy which have allowed us to start welcoming more voices into our communities.
Foster Community Relations – We have started soliciting priorities and working with many different communities. The Jenkins Area Meetups were contributed to CDF and expanded to CI/CD meetups and we also offer online training courses.
Grow the membership base – We are proud to have a membership of over 30 organizations which includes end user companies, vendors, start-ups, universities and institutes.
Create value for all members – We continue to listen to feedback from our individual and organization members. We held many events in 2019 including our popular mindshare cocktail hour as a way to stay close to the needs of our members.
Expand into emerging tech areas – One of the key area has been around MLOps – marrying DevOps with Machine learning through the efforts of our MLOps Special Interest Group.
We have had a lot of work done by our community. Thank you! And we have lots more fun on the way.
To keep up-to-date, sign up for our newsletter and join us in 2020 as we continue to grow and advance CI/CD in the industry!
Do you have your ticket for the CD summit yet? Grab it soon, because we have limited space and it looks like we’re gonna sell out!
We (Rosalind Benoit, Armory, and Christie Wilson, Google) are thrilled to be collaborating with the CDF as co-chairs of the upcoming Continuous Delivery Summit, happening March 30th, 2020, and co-located with KubeCon EU in Amsterdam.
What’s our vision for this event? And more importantly, what’s the story of Continuous Delivery (CD) that the fledgling CDF has committed to sharing with the world? Why does it matter, and what do we hope to gain from telling it?
If you create software, you know how much power your software delivery lifecycle (SDLC) has: it can feel slow and oppressive, or it can accelerate you and give you the freedom you need to try all your cool ideas!
Software is increasingly more and more important to our culture and our economy: enterprises need great software to offer competitive products and services, and humans need great software to automate tasks, do less with more, and improve the lives of their families and communities.
And we need CD to make the software that makes this all possible!
At the CDF, we believe in CD, we believe in CI, and we believe that we make better solutions when we have more perspectives. The CDF aims to bring together the people building and using CI/CD projects so that we can take CI/CD forward into the future together as a community. At the CD summit we want to unpack these goals, dig into delivery platforms and strategies, and give voice to the frustrations and successes you’ve run into with your own SDLC.
