On the surface, the best-of-suite solution seems to make more sense; it means fewer tools to manage and, hopefully, savings due to working with a single vendor.
However, this practice shows otherwise—over and over again.
Let’s look at a real-world example. Have you driven a family mini-van? To me, it is a good symbolization of the best-in-suite product. It tries to be everything: It has a decent engine, and you can even add a towing hitch. However, it’s not a car that will help you win a race or haul your boat easily. Convenience makes families choose a mini-van, but they quickly realize it comes with significant shortcomings.
[…] The results published by the CD Foundation (part of the Linux Foundation) in its State of Continuous Delivery Report published in May confirms my thesis.
Testing applications running on Kubernetes is difficult! If you’re running integration or end-to-end tests in your CI pipeline, you noticed some of the shortcomings: authenticating CI to access your cluster leaves some potential security holes, tests artifacts are hard to store (have you tried storing your tools’ screenshots and recordings for future access?), and everything becomes complex and slow very quickly. Eventually, the unwanted thing happens: everyone in your team deprioritized running tests.
Whether you are a developer, tester, or DevOps practitioner, you should be leveraging the power of Cloud Native Testing to take a new approach to testing your Kubernetes Applications. In this presentation I’ll help you become the person who is doing your tests and enabling others to do it without too much pain – join us!
Speaker Bio: Abdallah is Technical Product Manager at Testkube. His passion is dedicated to the developer tooling in the open source ecosystem where he has worked with a variety of products in the pasts at Google and at Kubeshop. In his free time you’ll usually find him in the movies, learning jazz or spending time with family and friends.
Developers haven’t gotten significantly faster at making code changes and putting them into production over the past two and a half years, reported a new study by the CD Foundation…
However, the report also found that code velocity has remained steady for the past two years, with about 15% of teams being considered top performers, meaning they have lead times of less than one day.
The CDF believes that while DevOps may be a help, it is likely the increasing complexity of projects that is slowing things down.
We sponsored the State of DevOps Report by Puppet again this year. They’ve been researching DevOps and publishing this report for over 10 years! This time around, the focus of the report was around the rising trend of Platform Engineering.
If you want to hear a panel discussing the results, listen to the podcast.
We’ve partnered with Techstrong.TV to launch a new series of videos on various Continuous Delivery (CD) topics. Techstrong.TV features industry thought leaders, experts and practitioners in CD, DevOps, cloud-native, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. This partnership extends our audience reach and encourages folks to get involved in the CD dialogue.
The CD Pipeline
The series is called The CD Pipeline: Continuously Delivering Software from A to Z. It spotlights all aspects of CD as we interview community thought leaders about different technologies, open source, best practices, and future trends. Key topics include Continuous Delivery events, interoperability, software supply chain, and more.
The episodes will be hosted by Alan Shimel, Techstrong Group and Lori Lorusso, JFrog and CDF Outreach Committee Chair.
Episode 1: The State of Pipelines: Past, Present & Future – Part 1
Continuous Delivery has evolved since its inception. For our inaugural episode, we are starting a series on The State of Pipelines: Past, Present & Future. Our featured guests are maintainers, contributors, and active voices in the Tekton project and CD Foundation.
Tekton is an open source framework for creating CD systems, allowing developers to build, test, and deploy across cloud providers and on-premise systems. Join us as we talk with the Tekton project about CD and how it has transformed since its inception in the early 2000s.
Thank you to our guests for taking the time to chat about Tekton and the State of CD Pipelines:
Dibyo Mukherjee – Google, Software Engineer
Lee Bernick – Google, Software Engineer
Andrea Frittoli – IBM, Developer Advocate, OS Developer
Watch Now
Watch the first episode on Techstrong.TV. The next one will be centered around the Jenkins project.
