CloudBees Connect London

DevOps has been around for over 15 years and the benefits of a unified process across multiple teams is clear. However, enterprises still find it difficult - if not impossible - to make software delivery rapid, repeatable and scalable. Now, DevOps implementation isn’t magic, and transforming into a well oiled software delivery machine doesn't happen overnight.  You’ve taken the first steps but know you can do better. This session will start with an overview of common challenges in modern software delivery and highlight solutions to overcoming these challenges with focus on CI/CD as the cornerstone of DevOps practices.

Imagine a world in which self-service automation, model-driven pipelines, and built-in security and compliance liberate developers to do what they love – code and innovate.

Modern software delivery platforms bring together all the necessary capabilities to deliver software at scale both safely and securely. DevOps empowers the software development and delivery teams to maximize business value by delivering software securely, efficiently, and quickly, while remaining compliant.

In this keynote presentation, you will learn how best-of-breed platforms, like CloudBees platform, serve as a single source to:

• Integrate, unify, extend, and automate the creation, build, testing, and packaging of code and artifacts.Eliminate scripts and automate end-to-end delivery workflows while verifying performance, quality, and security. 

• Model, orchestrate, and visualize complex application releases and deployment models, and utilize built-in audit trails and manage deployment outcomes.

• Gain real-time visibility.

• Release and manage new features rapidly at scale, and share common visibility and governance of flags across the entire software delivery lifecycle.

• Manage continuous code and infrastructure compliance in real-time from commit through production

CloudBees CI, our leading CI/CD solution built on Jenkins(R), provides additional Configuration as Code (CasC) capabilities to simplify the management of CloudBees CI (Jenkins) Controllers at scale, by capturing the configuration of CloudBees CI controllers in human-readable declarative configuration files, which can then be applied to a controller in a reproducible way. By capturing the configuration in files, it can be treated as a first class revision-controlled artifact - versioned and then applied to controllers while being centrally managed from CloudBees CI Operations Center (“Controller of Controller”).

These labs will introduce hands-on examples (interactive show and tell format) demonstrating how CloudBees CI CasC enables shared services teams and Jenkins admins to provide easily manageable, auditable and scalable configuration for any number of controllers. Participants who want to do these workshop labs on their own will get access and help to get set up to their personal CloudBees CI environment which will remain online and available for a few weeks. 

We'll cover how to leverage the unique features of CasC for CloudBees CI to:

• Deploy configuration-as-code at scale by using inheritance and automating the provisioning of controllers

• Configure full environments for controllers using human-readable YAML files

• Apply best practices to better control security, plugins and share configurations across any number of controllers