How to configure CircleCI: what you might not know
CircleCI is not the most popular CI/CD platform for open source contributors today, but it is widely used by many big sharks in the industry. So we have to keep in mind how to accurately configure it.
Use Git (with GitHub, GitLab or BitBucket) for Effective Communication
Here’s a situation I’ve encountered numerous times:
We’re interviewing an engineering candidate. Say they’ve finished a course, a bootcamp or even worked for 1-2 years. I give them a home assignment to check their coding abilities. Now – we always ask to submit the assignments as Github pull requests – this both makes it easier to review and provides a simulation of an actual collaborative workflow.
They submit their work – and that’s when I suddenly realize – they don’t know how to work with git!!!
I’ve stumbled upon this time after time, and finally decided it’s time to summarize my expectations in a post.
The Inversion of GitHub Actions, or Tom Sawyer in Your CI Pipeline
The famous American writer Mark Twain, in his story about how Tom Sawyer made the boys paint the fence, showed the public how inversion of action works. Or the elaboration of negation, if you like to call it that.
But today we are interested in how to “make the machines under our control” think differently, because automation involves programming the behavior of machines, right? And scripts are all about the same thing. Let’s see it in this article.
CircleCI – The Matrix
This series of posts will focus on some tips and tricks that you can, and should implement in your config files. First, we will cover the matrix. This post assumes you have the basics down about circle CI configs, i.e: you know what: job, step, parameter, etc. mean.
Battle-tested CircleCI tips and tricks
Hello, everyone! In this series of posts, I will cover a variety of topics that I think everyone who works with CircleCI (Circle) should know. For all the posts in this series, I’m assuming that the reader is familiar with the general concepts of CircleCI.
Continuous Lifecycle London 2017
Last week I had the honour to speak about ChatOps at Continuous Lifecycle conference in London. The conference is organised by The Register and heise Developer and is dedicated to all things DevOps and Continuous Software Delivery. There were 2 days of talks and one day of workshops. Regretfully I couldn’t attend the last day, but I heard some of the workshops were really great. The Venue The venue was great! Situated right in the historical centre of London city, a few steps away from Big Ben, the QEII Center has a breathtaking view and a lot of space. The talks took place in 3 rooms : one large auditorium and 2 — smaller ones. It is quite hard to predict which talks will attract the most audience and it was hit and miss this time around too. Some talks were over-crowded while others felt a bit empty. Between the talks everybody gathered…
CI/CD for Microservices – Challenges and Best Practices
Introduction: Microservice Software Architecture is a software system architecture pattern whereas an application or a system is composed of a number of smaller interconnected services. This is in opposite to the previously popular monolith architectures in which, even if having a logically modular, component-based structure the application is packaged and deployed as a monolith. The Microservice architectural pattern while having many benefits (which we’ll briefly outline in the following paragraph) also presents new challenges all along our software delivery pipeline. This whitepaper strives to map out these challenges and define the best practices for tackling them to ensure a streamlined and quality-oriented delivery process. Microservice Architecture Benefits: Smaller Application Footprint (per Service) The ‘Micro’ notion of the concept has been getting some justified critic – as it’s not really about the size of the codebase, but more about correct logical separation of concerns. Still once we do split our existing…
Jenkins and the Future of Software Delivery
Are you optimistic when you look into the future and try to see what it brings? Do you believe in robot apocalypse or the utopia of singularity? Do you think the world will change to the better or to the worse? Or are you just too busy fixing bugs in production and making sure all your systems are running smoothly? Ant Weiss of Otomato describing the bright future of software delivery at Jenkins User Conference Israel 2016.
How OpenStack is Built – the Video now Online
Watch Ant Weiss of Otomato provide an overview of the OpenStack CI – probably one of the most advanced Jenkins-based CI infrastructures in the world.