Tietoevry
Carsten works as Senior Solution Consultant at Tietoevry. As a member of their Platform Engineering Team he helps customers implement their Kubernetes and Cloud Native solutions. Carsten comes with a decade’s worth of experience implementing DevOps across European Research Institutions and has a background in mathematics.
Automation and CI/CD workflows make releasing new versions a breeze. Long gone are the days of yearly releases, forgotten the pains of formal release processes.
Today we ship code many times a day. With the »click of button« we can kick off complex pipelines. Within minutes, our latest git commits get exactly to where we want them, and without manual interference. GitOps tooling and rolling forward workflows make everything seamless.
Except – what if you have lots of deployment targets to manage? What if prod is down and you need to quickly roll back? Or – the stuff of real nightmares – the tagging pipeline stopped working.
Let's have a look at some of the potential pitfalls of depending on automation and alternatives to pure ArgoCD/Flux Image Update Automation such as Kargo and how we adopted it.
