#continuous-integration

By Jithin Emmanuel, Sr. Software Dev Manager, Verizon Media

On Tuesday, December 4th, I joined speakers from Spotinst, Nirmata, CloudYuga, and MayaData, at the Microservices and Cloud Native Apps Meetup in Sunnyvale.

We shared how Screwdriver is used for CI/CD at Verizon Media. Created by Yahoo and open-sourced in 2016, Screwdriver is a build platform designed for continuous delivery at scale.

Screwdriver supports an expanding list of source code services, execution engines, and databases since it is not tied to any specific compute platform. Moreover, it has a fully documented API and growing open source community base.

The meetup also featured very interesting CI/CD presentations including these:

A Quick Overview of Intro to Kubernetes Course, by Neependra Khare, Founder, CloudYuga

Neependra discussed his online course which includes some of Kubernetes' basic concepts, architecture, the problems it solves, and the model that it uses to handle containerized deployments and scaling. Additionally, CloudYuga provides training in Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos Marathon, Container Security, GO Language, Advanced Linux Administration, and more.

Achieving a Serverless Experience While Scaling with Kubernetes or Amazon ECS, by Amiram Shachar, CEO & Founder, Spotinst

Amiram discussed two important concepts of Kubernetes: Headroom and 2 Levels Scaling. Amiram also reviewed the different Kubernetes deployment tools, including Kubernetes Operations (Kops). Ritesh Patel, Founder and VP Products at Nirmata, demoed Spotinst and Nirmata. Nirmata provides a complete solution for Kubernetes deployment and management for cloud-based app containerization. Spotinst is workload automation software that’s focused on helping enterprises save time and costs on their cloud compute infrastructure. 

Data Agility for Stateful Workloads in Kubernetes, by Murat Karslioglu, VP Products, MayaData

MayaData is focused on freeing DevOps and Kubernetes from storage constraints with OpenEBS. Murat discussed accelerating CI/CD Pipelines and DevOps, using chaos engineering and containerized storage. Murat also explored some of the open source tools available from MayaData and introduced the MayaData Agility Platform (MDAP). Murat’s presentation ended with a live demo of OpenEBS and Litmus.

Note to self (& others):  When using JFrog Artifactory (the SaaS aka “online” offering) and have configured SSO authentication with say, Google, you can’t use encrypted passwords as the mechanism for maven authentication.

Instead, you have to use your username of the SSO account, up to the domain, “john.smith” not “[email protected]”, and you have to use an API Key you generate from your account page as the password.

Those two become the <username> and <password> configurations in your maven’s ~/.m2/settings.xml.

How-to: What's the fastest filesystem for developer builds? #programming #answer #solution

What’s the fastest filesystem for developer builds?

I’m putting together a Linux box that will act as a continuous integration build server; we’ll mostly build Java stuff, but I think this question applies to any compiled language.

What filesystem and configuration settings should I use? (For example, I know I won’t need atime for this!) The build server will spend a lot of time reading and…

Solution: Triggering Jenkins build for merge request from GitLab web hook #it #programming #solution

Triggering Jenkins build for merge request from GitLab web hook

I want Jenkins (1.561) to build merge (pull) requests submitted to GitLab (6.7.5), triggered by a merge request web hook. I have a parameterised build, and the Jenkins plugins “GitLab Merge Request Builder” (1.2.0) and “GitLab Hook” (1.0.0). Migrating to Jenkins CI is, unfortunately, not a real option.

The Merge Request Builder…

Answer: Hudson or Teamcity for continuous integration? #answer #solution #programming

Hudson or Teamcity for continuous integration?

We are a Java shop looking for a CI tool to use. Both Hudson and Teamcity seem to be free but Teamcity seems slicker and with more support.

I was wondering why one would still use Hudson and if anyone could provide any argument for/against either?

Answer [by Simon Groenewolt]: Hudson or Teamcity for continuous integration?

I had never heard of…

How to: "Pretty" Continuous Integration for Python

"Pretty" Continuous Integration for Python

This is a slightly.. vain question, but BuildBot’s output isn’t particularly nice to look at..

For example, compared to..

phpUnderControl

Hudson

CruiseControl.rb

..and others, BuildBot looks rather.. archaic

I’m currently playing with Hudson, but it is very Java-centric (although with this guide, I found it easier to setup than BuildBot, and produced…

How to: How and why do I set up a C# build machine?

How and why do I set up a C# build machine?

I’m working with a small (4 person) development team on a C# project. I’ve proposed setting up a build machine which will do nightly builds and tests of the project, because I understand that this is a Good Thing. Trouble is, we don’t have a whole lot of budget here, so I have to justify the expense to the powers that be. So I want to know:

What kind…