How to automatically deploy Helm charts to a Kubernetes cluster
Helm charts lifecycle management is a manual task. Helmsman allows you to automate your Helm charts lifecycle management using declarative configuration files.
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Automating an Automation Server
Job DSL or scripted/declarative pipelines are becoming the standard when it comes to defining jobs in Jenkins. Now we need a similar solution to maintain Jenkins itself.
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A short story about Pre-tested Integration
Continuous Integration and Code Review are strongly correlated with success. Many use Pull Requests for code review, but for co-located teams this can be an obstacle for CI. Is there a better way?
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How we tell the Continuous Delivery story
A developer that pushes their changes and goes on a celebratory walk to the water cooler is done. But, they’re not done done, their changes have yet to be thoroughly tested, added to future release notes, properly peer reviewed and more. These are pains we want to rid the software industry of, and here’s how we do it.
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Back to the basis of CI
Continuous Integration is now synonymous with having a server set up to build and test any change submitted to a central repository. But this isn’t the only way, or even how CI used to work. What did we do before DVCSs and Jenkins?
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Continuously improving our format
We strive to continuously improve, so the 8th gathering in our Continuous Delivery Alliance will feature all the good things from the 7th meeting in a slightly evolved format.
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What’s next for the CoDe Alliance?
We had our 7th gathering in the CoDe Alliance a few months ago and have worked to distill and evolve many of the good ideas that came out of our sessions. Our aim is to turn our interesting discussions into tangible projects and running code.
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An in-depth comparison of two CI/CD servers
What do we need from a CI/CD system? How should we decide which one to use? In this blog we ask ourselves what a modern CI/CD system should look like and compare two commonly used build systems: Jenkins pipelines and Concourse CI.
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An immutable infrastructure approach
Immutable infrastructure as code reduces inconsistency and makes deployments faster and easier. We can provision immutable infrastructure with Packer & Terraform. Let’s use them to provision Jenkins Windows build slaves.
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Preventing Jenkins from running jobs after a restart
You don’t always want Jenkins to start running jobs right after it starts. Sadly, starting up in a dormant state isn’t a built-in feature, unless you’re running CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise. However, there’s little a clever script can’t solve.
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Containerized Data Center on Kubernetes
How to achieve high availability in a smart, easy to manage, reproducible manner? The solution is ASK (Atlassian Software in Kubernetes).
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A trip down memory lane
10 years ago, Praqma started, not in a garage, but in a posh apartment in the Copenhagen city center. Soon it became apparent that the dot-com bubble had already burst and it wasn’t going to be a walk in the park.
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A day to learn how to scale fast and upgrade without downtime
Albert Rigo shares his thoughts on the Atlassian Accelerator Day in Copenhagen, and how he learned to quickly and comfortably scale Atlassian Data Center, upgrade with zero downtime and stop spending his weekends upgrading JIRA.
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Follow our blog from the 2017 Eiffel Summit
Let’s talk about Eiffel - the traceability protocol, not the programming language. As we are attending the Eiffel Summit, we let you in on how the big companies work with traceability, and on the latest collaborative projects.
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