CDEvents in
Jenkins and Keptn
What’s Next?
Oleg Nenashev
Dynatrace / Keptn / Jenkins / CDF TOC
May 2022
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WELCOME TO VALENCIA
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> whoami
@oleg_nenashev
oleg-nenashev
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Disclaimer
● Opinions are my own, happy to discuss
● My talk does not represent opinions of my
employer, the Continuous Delivery Foundation,
or the communities
● I present only open source projects today
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WELCOME TO VALENCIA
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CDEvents in Jenkins and Keptn
What’s next?
Oleg Nenashev
Dynatrace / Keptn / Jenkins / CDF TOC
May 2022
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> whoami
@oleg_nenashev
oleg-nenashev
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Disclaimer
● Opinions are my own, happy to discuss
● My talk does not represent opinions of my
employer, the Continuous Delivery Foundation,
or the communities
● I present only open source projects today
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Open source standards
for the win!
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CDEvents becomes an Open Observability Standard
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● Public announcements
● Alpha release
● Growing adoption
● General availability
Becoming an industry standard
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Adoption in the ecosystem
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Keep CDF Events SIG growing
● Help CI/CD systems to talk to each other in a
standardized way
● Provide interoperability through better
communication and abstraction
● How?
○ Introduce new standards
○ Facilitate adoption of communication standards
https://github.com/cdfoundation/sig-events
github.com/eiffel-community
cloudevents.io
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Adopting CDEvents in
Jenkins
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Jenkins keeps evolving
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Modern Jenkins
• Pipeline-as-Code
• Configuration-as-Code
• New plugins and integrations
• Modern packaging
• Distributions for public clouds
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Jenkins is a part of open ecosystem
● Jenkins remains automation server/framework
● Ecosystem is a key for us
● Focus on integrations and interoperability
● jenkins.io/project/roadmap
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CDEvents and Jenkins
● Updating the CloudEvents plugin by Shruti
● CDEvents trigger for Jenkins
● Pipeline steps for producing events
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Adopting CDEvents
in Keptn
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1. Adapt Keptn to CDEvents
a. keptn/spec/…/cloudevents.md
b. Triggering sequences, e.g. for deployment
2. Produce CDEvents in sequences
a. Automatic events for Keptn stages
b. Generic sequence steps
3. Adopt CDEvents in Keptn internals
a. Produce CDEvents when deploying Keptn
CDEvents in Keptn
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● Keptn Specification is wider than CDEvents
○ SLI/SLO events
○ Monitoring and Alerts
○ Evaluation
○ Release / Rollback
● There’re benefits for other projects
“Application Lifecycle Events”?
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Generalize Keptn Events
as a new standard?
● Option A: Part of CDEvents
● Option B: New standard within the CDF
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THE END
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Thank you!
● CDF SIG Events
● CDEvents contributors
● Shruti Chaturvedi
● Jenkins and Keptn contributors
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● CDEvents is a great opportunity for the CDF
● Joint interest between member projects and companies
● Jenkins and Keptn plan adopting CDEvents alpha
● Something you want to adopt too
Takeaways
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For today’s discussions
● Announcements and adoption strategy
● Using the CDF TOC’s budget grant
○ 10K USD for project’s evolution
● “Application Lifecycle Events”?