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CircleCI onboarding toolkit: User-friendly tools to help you ship sooner

Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) optimizes team development flows by automating build, test, and deployment processes to ensure fast and reliable delivery of high-quality software. Adopting best-in-class CI/CD tooling is one of the best investments your organization can make to shorten delivery cycles, eliminate painful manual processes, and keep infrastructure costs in check.

Webinar: 2022 State of DevOps

DevOps attempts to merge development and operations to develop better-quality software products. DevOps is constantly transforming and has never been more popular than it is today. In fact, “DevOps” is one of the top most searched for phrases in the entire IT industry. So what happened in 2022? We’ve assembled a panel of experts for our final webinar of 2022 to look back on the year and discuss key learnings and trends such as.

What does CI/CD do?

Organizations are under pressure to deliver software faster than ever before. Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) help them meet that demand. Companies are turning to CI/CD to speed up the software development process and increase efficiency. In this article, learn about what CI/CD is, the benefits of using it and some of the challenges that come with it.

What is platform engineering? A quick introduction

Platform engineering is an emerging discipline focused on enhancing developer productivity by reducing the complexity and uncertainty of modern software delivery. It addresses some of the biggest challenges of doing DevOps at scale, including aligning development practices with business priorities and reducing the burden of managing a complicated web of tools and infrastructure across the application lifecycle.

DevOps 101: Introduction to Package Management

When you’re new to an industry, you encounter a lot of new concepts. We tend to use a lot of jargon, the documentation may be written for someone more experienced in mind or rely on contextual knowledge of the rest of the space, and it often doesn’t explain the “why” for the tool. This can make it really difficult to get your feet underneath you in an unfamiliar landscape, especially for junior engineers.

The quickest way to integrate Mattermost into your GitLab release pipeline

Organizing a software release is a cross-team effort and a large undertaking. Leveraging the power of Mattermost Playbooks can help your team stay on deadline and keep confusion at bay. In this post, we’ll learn how to quickly integrate Mattermost into your GitLab release pipeline to help streamline your release processes. At the end of the blog post, there’s a link to a release management demo that you can try out in the browser to see these ideas in action.

DevOps Institute SKILup Hour: CI/CD | Dec 13, 2022 | Feat Cloudsmith Co-Founder & CEO Alan Carson

Join our experts for this SKILup Hour to learn more about the latest CI/CD practices and how to extend CI/CD to deliver a traceable, end-to-end DevOps toolchain that includes connecting planning to delivery and learning from the wisdom in production. In this Session, you will learn: How system and organizational design affect the ability to deliver effective CI/CD How CI/CD supports regulatory and compliance requirements such as segregation or separation of duties How to know when it’s time to level up to continuous deployment and how to do this safely with automation and dark launches