Dagger is a portable devkit for CI/CD pipelines, developed by the creators of Docker. It enables DevOps engineers to build and run powerful pipelines anywhere by providing a composable, reusable software components system. Powered by Buildkit, Dagger aims to solve the fragmentation problem in DevOps by unifying development and CI environments, facilitating local testing and debugging, and avoiding CI lock-in. Dagger runs on any Docker-compatible runtime, solving dev/CI drift and CI lock-in, and it's in early stages of development with active community participation encouraged.
The article presents ten lesser-known but highly useful GitHub Actions that can enhance workflow automation, focusing on tasks like YAML validation, markdown link checking, auto-assignment of PRs, commit message linting, dependency caching, Slack notifications, license compliance checking, PR size labeling, security scanning, and Jira integration.
Despite the great value Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools have brought, DevOps teams are facing frustration due to tool fragmentation, integration hassles, and configuration nightmares. Emerging practices like Infrastructure from Code are being explored as potential solutions.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announces the expansion of OpenTelemetry into CI/CD observability, enabling standardized and vendor-agnostic monitoring of CI/CD pipelines.
GitLab introduces CI/CD Steps, a new programming language designed for simplifying complex DevSecOps automation workflows.
Conor Barber explores the evolution of infrastructure from YAML configurations to pipelines-as-code, focusing on modern CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions, GitLab, and CircleCI. The presentation was given at QCon San Francisco 2023, discussing how moving away from YAML can improve scalability, cost efficiency, and developer experience.
Research shows that GitHub Actions, a popular CI/CD platform, is vulnerable to typosquatting attacks, where malicious actors exploit spelling mistakes in action names to trick developers into running malicious code.
This article walks you through building a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions for a .NET microservice deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service. It covers steps like triggering the pipeline, generating a container version, building and pushing the Docker image, and deploying to AKS using Helm charts.
This blog discusses the CI/CD concept and reviews 11 top tools for implementing CI/CD in 2024. It covers key benefits, features, pricing, and integrations of each tool.
