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Learn from industry standards in our collection of best practice guidance. The articles cover various topics, from Kubernetes and Terraform to compliance and monorepos.

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From scripts to software: Scaling beyond Jenkins with large monorepos

How high-velocity teams overcome the limits of Jenkins to scale their large monorepos by treating pipelines as software.

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Chris Nunciato
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Keeping the agile in ‘agile engineering’

Being agile means flexibility. Let’s discuss engineering techniques for your team, using the Agile Manifesto as a guide.

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Daniel Oakley

10 minute read

Secure your CI/CD pipelines with clear boundaries

Learn how to protect your pipelines and infrastructure. Create and enforce security boundaries to prevent unsafe actions by your pipelines and agents.

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Daniel Oakley

18 minute read

Continuous Integration for Monorepos

We'll compare monorepo with multi-repo CI, look at real-world examples, examine the benefits and challenges, and provide strategies to future proof your monorepo's CI.

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Daniel Ring

15 minute read

Monorepo CI Best Practices

Some of the most highly-scaled & sophisticated dev teams, with every conceivable combination of tooling & methodology have monorepos. Learn how to scale your monorepo CI.

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Mike Morgan

7 minute read

Best practices for running CI/CD on Kubernetes

Key things to consider in the quest to bring all the performance, flexibility, and cost benefits of Kubernetes to your CI/CD.

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Peter Buckley and Mel Kaulfuss

10 minute read

Continuous compliance and governance in CI/CD

Consider how security, compliance & governance might seamlessly work in CI/CD, and strike the right balance between efficiency and security.

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Mel Kaulfuss

17 minute read

Best practices for Terraform CI/CD

Learn how to ensure your Terraform projects are collaborative, scalable, secure, and resilient by managing them in shared CI/CD pipelines.

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Daniel Ring and Mel Kaulfuss

11 minute read

CI/CD best practices

Creating a CI/CD pipeline is only the first step. Optimizing it is the real journey, but there are best practices anyone can follow to improve their CI/CD maturity.

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Mike Morgan

8 minute read

Applying SRE Principles to CI/CD

Slow, unreliable CI/CD? Learn how to use SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets to maintain focus, prioritize effort, and rebuild developer trust in CI/CD.

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Mel Kaulfuss

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