Jenkins User Conference: Building Your Continuous Delivery Toolkit
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This document summarizes Andrew Phillips' presentation at the Jenkins User Conference Europe on building a continuous delivery toolkit. It discusses how Jenkins is well-suited for continuous integration but may have limitations for other tasks like environment provisioning, deployment, test management, and release management. It presents the "continuous delivery onion" model with these tasks at different layers and emphasizes that different teams see these tasks differently. The document then provides examples of considerations for choosing tools to address needs in these areas beyond just continuous integration.
Jenkins User Conference: Building Your Continuous Delivery Toolkit
- 1. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Building Your Continuous Delivery Toolkit Andrew Phillips XebiaLabs xebialabs.com |@xebialabs June 24, 2014 With thanks to T.j. Randall #jenkinsconf
- 2. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf You’re talking about other tools at a JUC?? • It's OK to think you may need additional tooling to solve your issue for everything that you need to do! • If you’ve expanded Jenkins into this area you’ll see that there are indeed a bunch of options…after all, you can do anything with Jenkins! • You’re hitting some challenges: – Maybe you’ve already put this together, but you're having challenges maintaining it. – Or, maybe you need your solution to do more, and are finding that you’re getting quite far away from the sweet spot.
- 3. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Jenkins rocks! We love Jenkins ourselves and use it for our Continuous Integration:
- 4. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Jenkins rocks! Some of our favourite plugins… • Build Failure Analyzer – Helps us to understand why builds are failing, especially when analying possible infrastructure issues. • Matrix Reloaded Plugin – Allows users to easily rebuild parts of an already built Matrix build. • Promoted Builds Plugin – Distinguish good builds from bad builds by introducing the notion of 'promotion'. • Throttle Concurrent Builds Plugin – For throttling the number of concurrent builds of a project running per node or globally.
- 5. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Beyond Jenkins..? When do you hit the edges of your CI tool? – Challenges can be conceptual, technical or organizational Jenkins has a luxury problem based on its success – Many, many plugins for many different types of tasks…”anything is possible”
- 6. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf The “Continuous Delivery Onion” The onion is bigger than Jenkins Deployment Build/CI Code Testing/ Analysis Test Management Release Management Customers These are not just technical practices, also different parts of the organization – Audience needs information presented in an appropriate way Environment Provisioning
- 7. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Outline for a Continuous Delivery Toolkit Before we talk about tools… – CD is a means, not a goal! – So there will be different needs depending on what you are looking to achieve – We’ll talk about what we see frequently… – …but it’s not intended to be taken as a silver bullet!
- 8. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Outline for a Continuous Delivery Toolkit Let’s take a look at five technical needs for Continuous Delivery: – Build/Continuous Integration – Environment Provisioning – Deployment – Test Management – Release Management/Pipeline Orchestration
- 9. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Outline for a Continuous Delivery Toolkit Let’s not forget…these are different teams, too: – Build/Continuous Integration: Dev – Environment Provisioning: Ops – Deployment: Release/Ops – Test Management: QA – Release Management/Pipeline Orchestration: Release/DBAs/Ops/Business
- 10. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Discovering the Elephant Each team will have a different idea of CD!
- 11. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Example: CI Let’s not forget…these are different teams, too: – Dev: “It’s that server that we run the does builds” – QA: “What’s a CI tool?” – DBAs: “Database changes in source control??” – Release: “What’s a CI tool?” – Ops: “What’s a CI tool?”
- 12. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Continuous Integration • Scalability! • Handling different types of builds • Access control and visibility to the right groups
- 13. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Environment Provisioning • This is not so much about scaling your CD infrastructure itself… • …but about creating target environments in which to run your applications • Need to define and instantiate environments • Also need to register these environments with your other tools
- 14. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Deployment • How to define the entire application, including configuration? • How to orchestrate multiple components across multiple machines? • Any way to avoid duplication in scripts? • Plus handling “standard” deployment problems such as environment-specific values, access control etc.
- 15. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Test Management • Current trend: more and more tests in more and more different test tools • How to combine all the output to answer the “go/no-go” question with confidence? • How to choose the right tests for the context and manage your test suite over time?
- 16. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Pipeline Orchestration • How to get the pipeline to go to production? • How to handle variation and manual tasks in your process? • How to provide the right level of insight to the right groups? • How to start with the process you have today and improve over time?
- 17. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf How do you Introduce a Toolkit? • How do you involve all of your teams in your Continuous Delivery tool set? How did your automation tools get chosen? • Most organizations try to limit/avoid cross- team activities when choosing a tool.
- 18. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf ………..PLUG!
- 19. Jenkins User Conference Europe #jenkinsconf Corporate Community Thank You To Our Sponsors Platinum Gold Silver