Another appearance on the Slight Reliability Podcast! This time we go over the basics of CI/CD, change management, my experience running a Change Advisory Board(CAB), testing in prod, and how to treat your test/deploy infrastructure!
Last time I covered several tips on how to launch and operate a Drone CI installation. As promised, I will now reveal my hard-earned secrets on how to build, configure, and monitor DroneCI pipelines!
This assumes pipelines using the Docker runner which is the common use case (and the most useful!)
Yes, this is implicit with the use of the Docker runner, however, take a...
In a previous post, I explored why Jenkins should no longer be the default choice for CI/CD for new software projects. This time, let’s discuss an alternative that I’ve gotten quite familiar with recently: Drone CI.
Drone is simply described as a ‘self-service Continuous Integration platform for busy development teams’. Configuring a CI pipeline is as simple as activating the repo in the web UI and committing a .drone.yml file in the project’s...
Jenkins is an ‘open source automation server’ commonly used for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery of software projects by many tech companies. It was first released in 2005 when it was originally known as Hudson. Its large collection of available plugins (~1800!), particularly Pipeline, enables teams to automate common operations tasks, particularly building, testing, and releasing.
All of that being said: it’s time to consider alternatives, especially for new software projects. This article outlines the...