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CD Foundation Welcomes Ortelius, Open Source Microservices Management Platform, As New Incubating Project
Ortelius joins CD Foundation Founding Projects Jenkins, Jenkins X, Spinnaker, Tekton, and Incubating Project Screwdriver under the Linux Foundation Umbrella

San Francisco, December 8, 2020 – The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the open-source software foundation that seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed, today announced that Ortelius has become an Incubating Project under the CD Foundation.

Ortelius is an open source microservices management platform that simplifies the organization, sharing and release of microservices and other reusable components. Ortelius integrates with CD orchestration tools and external deployment engines such as Helm, Ansible and Spinnaker.

“Companies are struggling with the complexities found in a microservice architecture. We started the Ortelius.io project to solve these challenges. Ortelius is a platform for organizing, sharing and versioning microservices and the ‘logical applications.’ It is an honour to have been accepted as an incubating project with the CDF. It is the right home for a platform that is designed to simplify a microservice architecture integrated into CD,” said Tracy Ragan, CEO DeployHub, Inc. and CDF General Membership Board Representative.

“We are extremely pleased to welcome Ortelius as a new Incubating Project of the CD Foundation. They are addressing key issues around microservices management and fit well into the CD Foundation Landscape as part of the toolkit for enterprises implementing continuous delivery,” said Tara Hernandez, Technical Oversight Committee Sponsor for Ortelius, and Engineering Manager, Google. “We are looking forward to working closely with the whole Ortelius community.”

The CD Foundation provides a wide range of services to support open source projects, and projects begin the process as an Incubation Project. This is for projects that are interested in reaching broad adoption and have identified a growth plan for doing so. Projects receive mentorship from the CD Foundation Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) and are expected to actively develop their community of contributors, governance, project documentation, and more. Full details on bringing an open source continuous delivery project to the CDF are available here.

“Microservices provide the ideal architecture for continuous delivery, allowing organizations to maximize deployment velocity and innovate faster. Tools supporting this new application architecture have been lacking. We welcome Ortelius to the CD Foundation to help improve microservice adoption and implementation of better development practices,” said Tracy Miranda, Continuous Delivery Foundation Executive Director. “We are excited to take the next step with both developers and users of continuous delivery.”

“The TOC has worked with Ortelius extensively to prepare for the transition over to Incubation Project. We are extremely pleased to welcome Ortelius to the CD Foundation, and are excited for all the progress coming up in 2021 and beyond,” said Dan Lorenc, Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Chair. “Welcome!”

Additional CD Foundation Resources
About the Continuous Delivery Foundation

The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. The CDF is a vendor-neutral organization that is establishing best practices of software delivery automation, propelling education and adoption of CD tools, and facilitating cross-pollination across emerging technologies. The CDF is home to many of the fastest-growing projects for CD, including Jenkins, Jenkins X, Tekton, and Spinnaker. The CDF is part of the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about the CDF, please visit https://cd.foundation.

About Ortelius

Ortelius simplifies the implementation of microservices. By providing a central catalog of services with their deployment specs, application teams can easily consume and deploy services across clusters. Ortelius tracks application versions based on service updates and maps their service dependencies eliminating confusion and guess work. More information at https://ortelius.io

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December 8, 2020
New Tracks = New Insights at DevOps World 2020

What’s new at DevOps World this year? Aside from the fact that this year’s event, happening today through Sept. 24, is being held virtually and is free of charge, DevOps World is also reorganizing the conference into three new tracks: Leadership, Community and CDF (Continuous Delivery Foundation).

Together, the three tracks illustrate the broad-ranging focus DevOps World strives to achieve. The conference aims to educate, entertain and elevate the DevOps community with informative, thought-provoking content. The Leadership track will spark conversations about DevOps now and into the future. The Community track focuses on how Jenkins devotees can better leverage the CI/CD resource inside their organizations. CDF track outlines best practices for CI/CD implementations.

DevOps World Tracks

Here are a few highlights from the new tracks at DevOps World 2020.

Leadership

Leaders aren’t born with their skills fully formed. They grow into their positions over time, growing stronger with training and experience along the way. This new track, chaired by independent analyst firm Accelerated Strategies Group (ASG), is designed to provide attendees access to strategic business thinking and deep technical expertise. The mix of presentations, panels, hands-on exercises and interaction with peers will equip a whole new generation of digital leaders.

What’s included in the Leadership track? Sessions will explore the ins and outs of everything from software quality to DevSecOps, from value stream thinking to the future of open source and DevOps in the enterprise. You’ll hear from CloudBees customers including T-Mobile and Fidelity Investments and thought leaders from ASG and IBM.

Do you want to know how to “Put Customers At The Center Of Software Delivery Management”? Forrester analyst Margo Visitacion has a session covering how leading companies are implementing this new, customer-centric operating model.

What can the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency doctrine teach you about advancing DevOps internally? Lindsay Holmwood, an engineering leader from Australia, will explain to attendees not only how to push DevOps forward but also how to fend off threats to its success. Naysayers will try to derail DevOps initiatives. Understanding the strategies and tactics used by the U.S. military to stop insurgencies can help you build a strong DevOps culture in your organization.

Community

This track pulls together the best elements of the movement that sparked the DevOps World conference into what it is today. It focuses on Jenkins, the world’s leading continuous integration and continuous delivery server, along with CI/CD tools, concepts and technologies that enthusiasts can use to do a better job delivering software.

Many sessions focus on Jenkins itself. CloudBees’ Oleg Nenashev’s breakout session, “Jenkins: Where It Is and Where It is Going,” provides an overview of the Jenkins configuration-as-code (CaC) ecosystem, Docker/Kubernetes support and environments as well as new Jenkins Pipeline features that create a shared vision for modern and cloud-friendly Jenkins. Other sessions include, “Machine Learning Plugins for Data Science in Jenkins,” “External Fingerprint Storage for Jenkins,” and “Jenkins UI Gets a Makeover.”

Practitioners from companies ranging in size from Wintellect to Salesforce will share other lessons of interest to the community. Ken Muse of Wintellect will give a talk on “Hyperscale Migrations – Tricks for Supporting Large Migrations with DevOps,” while Salesforce’s Scott Glaser will discuss his company’s “Culture of Collaboration and Sharing at Scale.” AKELESS’s Oded Hareven has pointers on how to “Streamline Your CI/CD Pipeline by Adopting a Just-in-Time Access Approach.” Splunk Inc.’s Chris Riley will outline ways to empower engineering teams in a breakout session, “How A Culture of ‘Be Yourself’ Generates More Revenue for the Business.”

CDF

This track is coordinated by the Continuous Delivery Foundation, a group created by the Linux Foundation to serve as a vendor-neutral home for many of the fastest-growing projects for continuous delivery. It pulls together nearly two dozen sessions on DevOps trends, technology resources such as Kubernetes and initiatives driven by the CDF itself.

One trend that’s catching on is the use of new organizational models to break down silos that can inhibit DevOps transformations. Capital Carbon Consulting’s Garima Bajpai discusses how a “Continuous Product Oriented Practice” can transform the qualitative way products are built and tracked into a quantitative way by identifying and measuring “value” in practice. The CDF’s Tracy Miranda and DeployHub’s Tracy Ragan present thoughts about how to bring more women into DevOps and help the open source community become more inclusive.

Kubernetes has become a de facto standard in container orchestration, so it’s probably no surprise there’s so much interest in the subject at DevOps World 2020. CircleCI’s Angel Rivera presents an overview of the containerization trend, arguing that a better understanding of runtime-related concepts will better prepare DevOps teams for the future. Cloud costs are on the agenda in Harness’ Tiffany Jachja’s session, which outlines ways attendees can optimize Kubernetes workloads.

What’s happening with CDF? A panel discussion with six CDF leaders will offer insights on the direction of the CDF, cover some of the strategic goals and review what’s next for the upcoming year.

To take advantage of these exciting new tracks, join us today!

September 22, 2020
Continuous Delivery Foundation Momentum Picks Up

The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) this week revealed that it now includes 33 member organizations, including now JPM Chase, eBay, Dell Boomi, Cycloid, White Source, the Association of DevOps Professionals and the DevOps Institute.

Founded by CapitalOne, CircleCI, Cloudbees, Google, Huawei, IBM, jFrog, Netflix and Salesforce in March the CDF is committed to promoting the adoption of open source continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools and platforms. Dan Lopez, CDF program manager, said the CDF plans to launch technical committees soon that address areas of CI/CD interest, including cybersecurity, software supply chains, software delivery management and machine learning algorithms in IT operations (MLOps).

The CDF is not focused on promoting one open source CI/CD platform over another as much as it is fostering cross-engineering whenever feasible. As such, Lopez said the CDF is trying to advance adoption of the open source Jenkins and Jenkins X CI/CD platforms as well as the Spinnaker platform from Netflix. As other open source technologies are presented to the CDF, a technical oversight committee will evaluate them for inclusion, he said.

At present, the membership of the CDF falls into three broad categories: companies that build tools and platforms, companies that leverage those technologies to deliver products and services and end user organizations such as JP Morgan Chase, eBay and CapitalOne.

Lopez said the next goal is to expand the reach of the CDF beyond the U.S. and Europe to create a global CI/CD community. It’s not clear how many CI/CD platform providers will join the CDF. However, as membership in the CDF increases, pressure to join continues to mount.

In the meantime, DevOps teams should expect collaboration between vendors to accelerate the pace of innovation across the entire DevOps life cycle. Vendors will be able to more easily identify areas to collaborate on that don’t provide much in the way of differentiation and yet are critical to advancing DevOps adoption.

While a lot of progress has been made in terms of CI use, CD has proven to be an especially thorny challenge for most organizations. That’s become a significant challenge as organizations build applications at a faster rate and in many cases are still being deployed manually in production environments. Via the CDF, vendors are hoping to promote adoption of best practices across the entire DevOps toolchain as they gear up to introduce additional products and services that assume a strong CI/CD foundation is in place.

It’s not clear to what degree the CDF will be able to accomplish that mission, given that most of the CI/CD issue organizations encounter are more cultural than technical. At the very least, however, organizations struggling with these issues should find solace among other like-minded souls wrestling with the same issues.

— Mike Vizard

September 26, 2019
The Linux Foundation Launches Continuous Delivery Foundation

The Linux Foundation announced it will provide the home base for a vendor-neutral Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) committed to making it easier to build and reuse DevOps pipelines across multiple continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms.

The first projects to be hosted under the auspices of CDF, which was launched at the Open Source Leadership Summit conference, includes Jenkins, the open source CI/CD system, and Jenkins X, an open source CI/CD solution on Kubernetes. Both were developed by CloudBees. Netflix and Google, meanwhile, are contributing Spinnaker, an open source multi-cloud CD solution, and Google is also adding Tekton, an open source project and specification for creating CI/CD components.

Additional projects are expected to join CDF once a Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) is formally named.

Founding members of the CDF include Alauda, Alibaba, Anchore, Armory, Autodesk, Capital One, CircleCI, CloudBees, DeployHub, GitLab, Google, Huawei, JFrog, Netflix, Puppet, Red Hat, SAP and Snyk.

Chris Aniszczyk, vice president of developer relations for The Linux Foundation, said that while a lot of progress has been made over the years regarding adoption of CI, the challenges associated with mastering CD have proven more vexing. To address that issue, the CDF will evangelize CI/CD and DevOps methodologies, define and document best practices, provide guidelines and create training materials to better enable organizations to implement CI/CD best practices.

Kim Lewandowski, a product manager for Google Cloud, said making it possible for organizations to reuse DevOps pipelines is a high priority. Building pipelines is a significant challenge for most DevOps teams; as such, they need to be able to reuse those pipelines across as many CI/CD platforms as possible.

Kohsuke Kawaguchi, creator of Jenkins and CTO at CloudBees, noted the creation of interoperability standards between CI/CD platforms will go a long way toward achieving that goal.

It’s not clear yet just how widely the CDF will be supported by the entire DevOps community. While CloudBees provides one of the most widely employed CI/CD platforms, other offerings have started gaining traction, especially among enterprise IT organizations that tend to not have a lot of internal DevOps expertise.

On the plus side, the CDF should help spur adoption of DevOps best practices even further. Adoption of DevOps processes within most enterprise organizations tends to be uneven at best. One team may be employing DevOps extensively, while the rest of the organization continues to rely on less agile legacy processes.

The CDF also should play a significant role in enabling organizations to embrace microservices-based applications built using containers. While Jenkins is the most widely relied-on CI/CD platform today, it is built on what is now considered in many quarters to be a legacy Java Virtual Machine (JVM) platform. In contrast, Jenkins X Background an open source CI/CD platform for building and deploying modern cloud-native applications on Kubernetes. The Linux Foundation also plays host the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which oversees the development of Kubernetes.

It still may take years for IT organizations to fully make the transition to DevOps and cloud-native applications. But in the months ahead, it’s clear the CDF intends to function as a force multiplier in enabling organizations to achieve that goal.

— Mike Vizard

March 12, 2019