Companies today are under heavy pressure to produce applications quickly. But only as the organization consistently launches product upgrades will a collection of positive features and their outreach to consumers improve. As a result, companies embrace DevOps and CI/CD methods to enhance their ability to rapidly sell quality and scale apps and features to design, develop, test and release.
The dynamic nature of cloud computing is one of the main advantages of the cloud for CI/CD. For the ephemeral and unpredictable nature of CI/CD workloads, this is ideal. Based on CI/CD workloads cloud services will automatically scale up and down. It creates massive management and cost advantages.
Enterprise businesses do not need to maintain their own servers, when CI/CD workloads grow or waste server resources while they are idle, they need to enhance these servers. Many teams operating CI/CD pipelines in cloud environments also use containers such as Docker and Orchestration systems such as Kubernetes.
A CI/CD tool such as Jenkins, CircleCI, AWS Code Build, Azure Devops, Atlassian Bamboo, or Travis CI is used to automate the steps and provide reporting.
Case Study
Continuous integration for enterprise PoS platform
Overview
Streamline patch and feature rollout to PoS solution across stores in a faster schedule.
Approach
-Robust version controlling for all modules.
-Automated CI/CD process via Git, Jenkins, Ant & Squish.
-Full build process vs a patch build.
-Automated deployment via Micros Xadmin and Windows Powershell.
-Build complete AKS architecture and pipeline for microservices.
-Logging of each module’s build and sprint version for easy identification via Nagios, Splunk.
-Enhance AKS on Multi Clusters with Istio as Service Mesh implementation and Azure Key vault integration.
Benefits delivered
Continuous build and automated deployment, robust version control
PoS build and deployment align to customer delivery management process
Deployed and managed Terraform workspaces for Dev, QA and PROD for a microservices based PoS hosted on AWS