KubeCon/CloudNativeCon
Some 12,000 people descended on San Diego today for KubeCon/CloudNativeCon. It’s fair to say this is more than a conference – it’s a movement of sorts. And it’s about much more than Kubernetes. The keynote especially was about many CNCF projects, including CoreDNS, Vitess, LinkerD, Jaeger, Open Policy Agent, and Etcd. It’s not clear to me how widely used each of those other projects is, but many of them have corporate backing. [Read More]

Pages
GitLab Pages is a powerful system for managing, editing and publishing static content web sites. Here’s a little insight into how it works. First, Pages depends on GitLab CI to generate the HTML for the site when changes are made in the Git repo. The CI templates are public. This site uses the Hugo framework, so its CI configuration is based on the Hugo Pages template. Of course, the code there isn’t very interesting, for example: [Read More]

Jenkins Versions
There’s a lot of confusion about the different version of Jenkins, some of it stemming from the now-famous blog post Jenkins: Shifting Gears by Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins itself. I asked around at GitLab to learn more about the context today for Jenkins and CloudBees. The majority of Jenkins installation are Jenkins 2, the mainstream Jenkins open source product. They ran with version 1.x for many years, before switching version to Jenkins 2. [Read More]