For years, Jenkins has been a staple in the world of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). Its open-source nature and extensive plugin ecosystem made it a go-to choice for developers and organizations worldwide. However,Jenkins no longer being free, prompting many to seek alternative solutions. Enter Razorops, a CI/CD platform that offers robust features and a commitment to being free forever.

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with the complexities of managing ArgoCD applications across multiple environments? Are you constantly juggling naming conventions and struggling to correlate applications representing the same microservice or product? If you’ve been deep in the trenches of GitOps, you’ve likely encountered these challenges firsthand.

As your organization adopts modern technologies and scales its workloads, it’s critical that your CI/CD environment follows suit to maintain smooth development and testing workflows. Adopting modern CI/CD tools (e.g., pipeline runners and testing frameworks) and best practices can increase the agility and resilience of your CI/CD environment as well as enable your teams to configure new jobs, stages, and tests to meet changing business requirements.

How can your organization leverage continuous integration (CI) to manage your infrastructure at scale in a reliable, secure, and repeatable fashion? If you are maintaining multiple projects, the monorepo strategy can be a useful approach that allows for a unified build and CI process and makes it easier to enforce coding standards and organizational practices. It can also help DevOps and platform teams streamline dependency management to reduce conflicts and compatibility issues.

Explore the best strategies for implementing automated testing in CI/CD pipelines to streamline your development process and ensure high-quality software delivery.

In the previous article of the series we explained how to model GitOps environments and promote an application between them. That article was laser-focused on a single application and its Kubernetes resources. In this article we will zoom out to look at several related subjects: It is worth mentioning that as always, our advice is a general recommendation that follows best practices.

In the fast-paced world of software development, efficiency is key. One of the most critical aspects of ensuring smooth and reliable software delivery is streamlining your deployment pipeline. A well-optimized deployment pipeline not only saves time and resources but also enhances the overall quality of your product. Let’s embark on a DevOps journey to explore how you can streamline your deployment pipeline effectively.

In Kubernetes a static pod is a concept where you can deploy a pod that is not managed by the API server. Static pods are directly managed by the Kubelet component. The Kubelet service is deployed with the configuration path where we can add the pod manifest for the Kubelet to deploy. Even though a static pod is not managed by the API server, you can use Kubectl to list the static pod. This is because, when Kubelet deploys a static pod, it creates a mirror pod in the API server.

In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, DevOps has emerged as a transformative force. It’s not just a set of practices or tools; it’s a cultural shift that aims to streamline collaboration, automate processes, and deliver value to customers faster and more efficiently than ever before. In this guide, we’ll delve into how DevOps is revolutionizing software development and provide insights into achieving success in this domain.