The State of CD Report findings are based on data from the previous six Developer Nation surveys, which reached more than 125,000 respondents worldwide over two and half years. The report is an important resource for organizations to understand how the performance of organizations across different industries is impacted by applying CD practices and using modern technologies while highlighting some of the emerging trends to keep an eye on and pitfalls to avoid.
A global survey of nearly 26,000 DevOps professionals published today by the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) at the cdCon + GitOpsCon event found 84% of respondents are involved in some type of DevOps activity. However, the report also found just under half 49% are using a continuous integration (CI) or continuous delivery (CD) platform and only 22% are using CI and CD approaches to automate all building, testing and deployment of code in a production environment.
We’re hosting the Continuous Delivery Mini Summit in co-location with Open Source Summit Europe 2023 on September 18, from 9:00-12:30 in Bilbao, Spain
This half-day event aims to connect the Continuous Delivery community—from leaders, industry experts, practitioners, and open source developers—to share and discuss how to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed.
It’ll be a great chance to catch up, learn from each other, and hear about the latest trends in Continuous Delivery.
The second CD Foundation User Story is now available: Developing Complete End-to-End CI/CD Pipelines at Ericsson.
This time around, Ericsson shares how they improved on scalability and observability by introducing a common event protocol in their CI/CD pipelines that sends over 3 million events per day, to benefit their 20K+ developers.
“Ericsson is actively contributing to the Continuous Delivery Foundation through various SIGs and also to the CDEvents project. Ericsson also held an end-user seat in the CDF TOC up until last month. We believe it is important to be involved in this foundation as an end-user to make sure our needs in the CI/CD space are catered for in the various open source projects we are using internally.
“Ericsson took part in creating the CDEvents project and is highly involved in the progression of the CDEvents protocol. This blog post describes Ericsson’s path to an event-driven CI/CD solution.”
Emil Bäckmark, CI/CD Architect, Ericsson
Thank you to the authors:
Ericsson has been very involved in the CD Foundation for many years now, even winning the CDF End User Award in 2022. Emil Bäckmark served on the CDF Technical Oversight Committee as an end user representative between May 2022 and May 2023 and also is the co-chair of the CDEvents project as well as the Events Special Interest Group (SIG).
The CDF User Stories Program features real-world use cases from companies embracing the change brought by Continuous Delivery, increasing their ability to deliver software with security and speed. The goal for the stories is to show the impact of adopting Continuous Delivery as a software development practice along with enabling CD technologies, (such as the CDF projects) the steps taken by respective organizations, and the additional benefits these resulted in improving the developer experience and productivity.
It’s a valuable resource for organizations that want to adopt Continuous Delivery and open source technologies because it showcases organizational leaders in their field.
You can read the first user story by Fidelity Investments: Securing Fidelity Investments’ Software Supply Chain.
We have a few stories in our pipeline, but if you’d like to contribute a user story, read the guidelines and send us a proposal!
Questions? Email: casestudy@cd.foundation
We’re happy to announce the 2023 CDF Ambassador cohort! We would like to thank the community for continued support to spread the word and overwhelming response.
Welcome to all our new and returning ambassadors, we can’t wait to collaborate with you!
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CDF Ambassador program is an initiative by CD Foundation to enable Continuous Delivery (CD) Leadership and build the Continuous Delivery Foundation through engagement, outreach and adoption of open source CD software practices and tools.
In other words, our ambassadors champion the CD Foundation and our mission to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. They will work together and with the Ambassador Chair to help steer the tactical roadmap for the next four quarters.
Ambassadors are part of a yearly cohort. This year, the call for ambassadors attracted top talent from various demographic locations, industry segments, and diverse backgrounds! We received an overwhelming number of nominations primarily from Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America. The nominations were reviewed and selected by the executive team and the Ambassador Chair, Garima Bajpai.
We have a number of ambassadors who are continuing the journey with us from 2022 to 2023, thank you to all our past ambassadors, now listed on the CDF Ambassador Alumni page.
