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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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What is continuous delivery (CD)?

Continuous delivery (CD) refers to the process of automatically preparing code changes for release and deployment into a production environment. Continuous delivery is an essential component of DevOps release management and is often used in concert with continuous integration (CI).

Even at the tail end of the software development life cycle (SDLC), developers can successfully deploy most product code versions with the help of CI/CD pipelines, along with a version control system (VCS). Continuous delivery enables programmers to automatically test code changes using multiple lenses (not just unit testing) before releasing them to customers. In this way, developers can have faith in the quality of the build artifacts they’re deploying, as they will have been subjected to rigorous testing and found to be in compliance with industry standards. API testing, load testing, functional and UI testing, integration testing, compliance testing, and others...

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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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