Carsten Thiel
Tietoevry
About
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.
Presentation
Deliver, Deploy, Promote – Releasing to Clouds and Clusters
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 100s of different deployment targets to manage? What if prod is down and you can't wait the 25 minutes for the one-line fix to go through all the testing stages to roll forward. Or – the stuff of real nightmares – the pipeline isn't even 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.