From Jenkins-under-your-desk to resilient service – DevConf.CZ 2021
Speakers: Michael Hofmann, Inaki Malerba
Red Hat’s CKI (“cookie”) project started out as a Jenkins proof-of-concept to show that kernel testing can be integrated into the kernel workflow.
Today, CKI provides all the infrastructure that stands between a merge request for a Fedora/CentOS/RHEL kernel repository on gitlab.com and the green check mark that signals that it can be merged.
Join us in our journey of how a bunch of engineers (that couldn’t spell DevOps correctly) learned to operate a fast-moving resilient service used by kernel developers in their daily work.
We will talk about:
How we keep the CKI service up and running by
– using a state-of-the art logging, monitoring and alerting setup
– being persistent in the case of transient failures
– reducing single-point-of-failure
How we make it easy to modify the testing pipeline by
– running canary pipelines for unmerged code
How we make it safe to hack on the underlying infrastructure by
– dividing the backend infrastructure into microservices
– automatically deploying testing versions for merge requests
– automating production deployments
Schedule: https://sched.co/gmIL
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