CloudBees Newsletter: Technical Tuesdays
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Technical Tuesday, September 2023 Edition
CI: High Availability and Horizontal Scalability
Simply put - reduce or eliminate downtime so you can keep working and not have to worry about services going down. How you ask? With Active-active high availability for CloudBees CI. Enjoy the following with High Availability Mode:
Remove the single point of failure
Keep things running even during infrastructure maintenance like upgrading Kubernetes nodes
Distribute workload among replicas to keep your controller happy and performant
Getting to go home at a normal time and not have to wait for services to be restored or come back online just to build your code.
This will drop with the September CloudBees CI release on September 20th. Docs and Videos will follow.
High Availability ModeCI: CloudBees Pipeline Explorer
How about a pipeline debug tool that gets you to the point….quickly. That's what the CloudBees Pipeline Explorer does, among other things:
Scalable and Performant tool to troubleshoot your pipelines. Don’t waste time waiting on slow tools to load log files and update the UI
Focused Troubleshooting with Issue Explorer to get right to the issues in the log quickly and easy sharing of info for collaborative troubleshooting
Clear Overview and Filtering capabilities to focus on what you need with Tree View
Built-in Search for less context switching and quick searches
CI: Workspace Caching
We all know the joys of waiting while downloading all those artifacts for each new build, right? All that extra time waiting as we check slack, emails, get a third cup of coffee/energy drink, and check out the latest cat memes.
Instead of waiting, let's get building. With workspace caching -you get faster builds and feedback by reusing cached artifacts from previous builds. Saves minutes to hours of just downloading/prepping of the workspace. Build smarter, not longer. (You can still grab some more coffee)
Read How It's DoneCI: Build Storm Prevention
Build storms - if you don’t know what they are - FANTASTIC! Those of us who do, we know the controller gridlock they bring.
CloudBees CI provides a build strategy that will prevent build storms by taking stock of the current state of discovered branches and pull releases without building them and establishing a repository baseline without building them. In other words - prevent the dreaded Build Storm!
Build Storm Prevention