UPDATE (2023-05-02): This tutorial, while still works, is now outdated. The recommended way is to deploy software via Reliza CD – see my new tutorial on that here. In this tutorial I’m going to show how to build Continuous Delivery system with Helm and Reliza Hub. We are going to build CI/CD on top of… Continue reading Helm CD with Reliza Hub: Complete Hands-On Tutorial
Author: taleodor
My Self-Taught Tech Career
12 years ago I first came to Canada on a Work Permit doing a minimum wage QA job. I had my Journalism degree from a good Russian school, 1 year of management consulting experience and 7 years of recruitment experience in Moscow, 3 years of which I was running my own recruitment company. Why and… Continue reading My Self-Taught Tech Career
Reliza Jenkins Plugin and Remote Trigger
Happy to announce that Reliza Jenkins Integration Plugin is now available! What can it do? It provides easy-to-use withReliza wrapper for Jenkins pipelines. It abstracts a lot of release and artifact metadata details which would be submitted to Reliza Hub, such as commit and build timing. Previous Jenkins integration was possible with our Reliza CLI… Continue reading Reliza Jenkins Plugin and Remote Trigger
DevOps and DataOps Discord Server
We recently launched Discord DevOps and DataOps Server. Please join new DevOps community here – https://discord.gg/UTxjBf9juQ. Bonus point – I’m monitoring this server all the time and will be replying to questions myself. So it’s a best way to reach out to me quickly.
Publish Gradle Project to Maven Central via CI
We’ve recently completed automated push of Reliza Java Client (SDK) to Maven Central. It’s a Gradle project, so just want to note few things that took more time during this setup. First, we’re using newer maven-publish plugin. Then note publishing and signing sections in our build.gradle. Next, our actual build job is here. Note, that… Continue reading Publish Gradle Project to Maven Central via CI
Automated QA Tests CI/CD Workflow With Reliza Hub
UPDATE 2023-07-16: Added details on uploading test report to release on Reliza Hub. We have recently extended Reliza Hub to support Automated QA functionality as a part of CI/CD pipeline. In this post I’m going to describe how we are dogfooding it. Base Setup We have a set of behave tests (behave – is a… Continue reading Automated QA Tests CI/CD Workflow With Reliza Hub
DevOps Trends for 2021
Traditionally at the year end I like to note most significant trends that I see unfolding in the DevOps world. I did not know about the level of disruption that Covid would cause when I put “Remote Asynchronous Workforce” on the last year’s list. As we now know this actually turned out to be the… Continue reading DevOps Trends for 2021
Reliza Hub: Individual vs Bundled deployments
Pretty excited to announce a new feature we just added to Reliza Hub. As requested, it is now possible to choose deployment strategy per instance – that said to use either Individual or Bundled deployment strategy. You can switch between deployment types on the Instance screen, after expanding instance settings: Deployment types function as following:… Continue reading Reliza Hub: Individual vs Bundled deployments
DevOps Bundles – New Name of The Game
The way we deploy software for the Web has come a long way from bare metal to VPCs to on-demand VMs with SOA to microservices. Latest big game in the DevOps world was container orchestration which is largely being won by Kubernetes and its ecosystem. What is coming next? I am starting to believe that… Continue reading DevOps Bundles – New Name of The Game
Hiring Lead Developers – Seeing The Project End State
I was recently reflecting on hiring and team management decisions. Particularly, how can you tell that a developer would make a good lead? My current thinking on this is following. The most important differentiator of whether a developer is a good lead is the ability to see the project end state. While junior and intermediate… Continue reading Hiring Lead Developers – Seeing The Project End State