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The latest News and Information on Continuous Integration and Development, and related technologies.

Merging to Main #2: Is GitOps Just a FAD?

Adopting GitOps is an adventure worth exploring, but it requires careful consideration of your existing development practices, CI/CD automation, infrastructure, and engineering culture. Like any CI/CD modernization, the benefits are significant, but finding the right balance between the amount of change, the timeline, and the potential for improvement can be tricky. In addition, you also must ensure that your teams receive training on the core principles of GitOps and the new process. So with that in mind - is it all worth it? Is GitOps just another FAD that you should ignore?

Role-based credential management with OIDC

In our article on managing static credentials, we discussed the necessity of secrets — the passwords, tokens, and API keys that connect digital services together — and the importance of keeping them secure so that your infrastructure and data are kept safe from intrusion and misuse. For organizations delivering software at scale, managing credentials across multiple teams and projects can quickly become tedious and error-prone, creating bottlenecks and unnecessary risk.

Improve the engineering goals you care about: Sleuth's new Goals & Automations feature

Matt Upton, Director of Software Development at Rewind, joined Sleuth's Don Brown and Daniel de Juan to take our new Goals and Automations feature for a test drive. Hear reactions and input from Matt on how he sees the Goals feature being useful for his teams: ‍Key sections: Give Sleuth a try and see why it's a deploy-based Accelerate / DORA metrics tracker both managers and developers love.

Platform Engineering: The Key to Successful Digital Transformation for the Enterprise

Explore how Platform Engineering can transform your enterprise and empower individual teams to work and ship independently, while maintaining compliance and governance requirements, through a centralised system. Discover: How CircleCI can help make platform engineering an integral part of their internal development platform. How to easily centralise essential components such as development processes, testing, infrastructure provisioning, project management, and observability. How platform teams operate in large organisations.

What Is Platform Engineering?

If DevOps is an approach to software development that emphasizes collaboration between Development and Operations teams, then Platform Engineering operationalizes that approach by creating a centralized platform that has specific sets of tools and processes. It’s the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in a cloud-native era.

Part II: A Journey of a Thousand Binaries - The Challenges with Software Dependencies

In part one of this series, we looked at what is a dependency, different types of dependencies, and their benefits in our code. In part two, we’ll look at the risks of using dependencies. Whenever we add a dependency we are increasing the risks of any software development cycle.

Static credential management for platform engineers

Cloud CI/CD is a force multiplier for development teams, especially those working remotely. Automated CI/CD takes load off of developers, allowing them to focus on building better products. Hosted CI/CD adds further benefit to this, ensuring that this newfound capacity isn’t spent managing the testing and deployment infrastructure, and that remote team members have easy access to CI/CD tools.

Monitor your TeamCity builds with Datadog CI Visibility

As the complexity of modern software development lifecycles increase, it’s important to have a comprehensive monitoring solution for your continuous integration (CI) pipelines so that you can quickly pinpoint and triage issues, especially when you have a large number of pipelines running.