Container runner, a new container-friendly self-hosted runner, is now available for all CircleCI users. Self-hosted runners are a popular solution for customers with unique compute or security requirements. Container runner reduces the barrier to entry for using self-hosted runners within a containerized environment and makes it easier for central DevOps teams to manage running containerized CI/CD jobs behind a firewall at scale.
GitOps modernizes software management and operations by allowing developers to declaratively manage infrastructure and code using a single source of truth, usually a Git repository. Many development teams and organizations have adopted GitOps procedures to improve the creation and delivery of software applications. For a GitOps initiative to work, an orchestration system like Kubernetes is crucial.
Containerization is a type of virtualization in which a software application or service is packaged with all the components necessary for it to run in any computing environment. Containers work hand in hand with modern cloud native development practices by making applications more portable, efficient, and scalable.
DevOps is the combination of software development and IT operations. It is a set of tools and methodologies designed to speed up the development of a product and facilitate efficiency throughout its lifecycle. DevOps can increase the rate at which applications and updates are delivered by managing and automating the monotonous and repetitive tasks that plague the development and deployment process.
Containers and microservices have revolutionized the way applications are deployed on the cloud. Since its launch in 2014, Kubernetes has become a standard tool for container orchestration. It provides a set of primitives to run resilient, distributed applications. One of the key difficulties that developers face is being able to focus more on the details of the code than the infrastructure for it. The serverless approach to computing can be an effective way to solve this problem.
