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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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This marks the conclusion of Chapter 8. After reading and comprehending the contents of this chapter, you should now have a reliable blueprint in your mind to draw from as you begin conducting your initiatives regarding the development and implementation of governance, a branching strategy, release pipelines, and change management.

As you’ve seen, by architecting your CI/CD infrastructure to automatically enforce these tenets, you minimize the risk of human error and burnout. The implications for this should not be taken lightly as we are not replacing or watering down governance, branching strategies, release pipelines, and change management in our organizations. Rather, we are baking them into the cake. This means that these duties must still be thoroughly implemented and enforced as before, but through the various oversight mechanisms that can be implemented in the configurations of your CI/CD pipelines.

In the next chapter, we’ll discuss effective strategies...

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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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