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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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Let Buildkite Migration Services transform your CI/CD experience

Our Migration Services team offers hands-on support to help you successfully move from Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions or other CI/CD platforms to Buildkite.

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Emilee Spencer
A diagram of a Jenkins cluster, with a controller and two connected agents, configured with JCasC and plugins.txt.

15 minute read

Automating Jenkins with Configuration as Code (JCasC)

Learn how to configure your Jenkins controllers, agents, plugins, and more with Jenkins Configuration as Code (JCasC) and Docker Compose.

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Christian Nunciato
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8 minute read

Custom HTML build descriptions in Jenkins

How to build better Jenkins debugging experiences that cut through the noise and help you get to what matters.

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Praneet Loke and Christian Nunciato
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11 minute read

Best practices for managing Jenkins plugins

Practical strategies for keeping your Jenkins plugins under control as you scale.

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Christian Nunciato
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9 minute read

Setting up a self-hosted Bazel remote cache on AWS

A guide to deploying a self-hosted Bazel remote cache on AWS, with examples in Terraform and Pulumi.

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Praneet Loke
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12 minute read

Understanding the SLSA framework

Dip into the details of the SLSA framework and learn how it can protect you from security vulnerabilities and supply chain attacks.

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Christian Nunciato
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10 minute read

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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