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Published inApr 2024
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Joel Kruger
Joel Kruger
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Joel Kruger

Joel Kruger is a senior DevOps professional and solutions architect with over 10 years of experience building CI/CD pipeline infrastructure in commercial and federal sectors. He is also an expert in employing container orchestration systems for automating computer application deployments at scale. He is a proponent of building reusable CI/CD pipeline configurations as downloadable and self-serve software factories. Joel is a very hands-on and customer-service-oriented person who loves to solve a challenge. Technology excites him, from cloud computing to embedded Raspberry Pi projects. He loves being creative with tech and is not afraid to get some hot solder in his shoelaces. Joel owns and operates his own corporation, dynamicVSM, as a freelance DevOps consultant and has experience architecting solutions that scale, reduce waste, and increase visibility. He works together with clients to help manage their value streams better.
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Exploring release pipelines

A release pipeline is a workflow or a collection of steps that are undertaken to guarantee the swift implementation of recently delivered code. Fundamentally, a well-built release pipeline makes delivery to production quick, easy, and reliable.

The exact stages of a release pipeline are different for each organization and product, but they often follow one another linearly. Notably, a more complex pipeline design may include steps that can be executed in parallel. This trend has become more popular in recent years due to the strategic advantages that parallel processing provides, but also because contemporary tooling has advanced well enough to make this functionality easier to implement without extensive scripting.

Typically, releases are triggered by an event, such as a code commit, although there are instances where the release might be explicitly initiated or scheduled in advance. You may also wish to automate the execution of your pipeline until...

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Joel Kruger

Joel Kruger is a senior DevOps professional and solutions architect with over 10 years of experience building CI/CD pipeline infrastructure in commercial and federal sectors. He is also an expert in employing container orchestration systems for automating computer application deployments at scale. He is a proponent of building reusable CI/CD pipeline configurations as downloadable and self-serve software factories. Joel is a very hands-on and customer-service-oriented person who loves to solve a challenge. Technology excites him, from cloud computing to embedded Raspberry Pi projects. He loves being creative with tech and is not afraid to get some hot solder in his shoelaces. Joel owns and operates his own corporation, dynamicVSM, as a freelance DevOps consultant and has experience architecting solutions that scale, reduce waste, and increase visibility. He works together with clients to help manage their value streams better.
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