Keeping your Cutting Edge Platform Cutting Edge: Continuous Delivery of Cloud Foundry
Channel: Cloud Foundry
Date: 2017-10-18

Keeping your Cutting Edge Platform Cutting Edge: Continuous Delivery of Cloud Foundry - Cora Iberkleid & Kartik Lunkad, Pivotal

So you’ve set up Cloud Foundry. Awesome. Your devs have speed, self-service, agility, no downtime. Great! But wait, there's a platform update? How do you know? It's critical? Hurry and download that file, go patch that dev environment! Good? Great! Now patch your other four environments. Nice job! Time for coffee. 

Oh wait - there’s another update? Better get back to your workstation… 

Patching and upgrading your Cloud Foundry platform, be it the buildpack, a stemcell, a tile, or Ops Manager itself, is still a manual process. An operator must become aware of new updates, download the files from Pivotal Network, and initiate each update through Ops Manager. Rinse and repeat for each of your foundations. Manual processes are inefficient, cumbersome, and often postponed, leading to risk as potentially important updates are delayed or ignored. 

Taking a lesson from the app dev community, we can use the principles and practices of Continuous Delivery to alleviate these challenges. Join us to see how you can set up Concourse pipelines to automate the patching and upgrading of Cloud Foundry itself, such that new releases on Pivotal Network trigger the automated application of updates to all of your foundations. Cuz everyone can use an extra coffee break.

About Cora Iberkleid
Cora Iberkleid is a Senior Cloud Application and Platform Architect at Pivotal, where she helps enterprises leverage modern technologies like Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud in order to deliver better quality software faster. Prior to joining Pivotal, she spent nearly a decade designing and building enterprise integration applications as part of the Professional Services organizations at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. She has previously spoken at Meetup events, including Cloud Native New York and New York City Spring User Group.

About Kartik Kushal Raj Lunkad
Kartik Lunkad is a Platform Architect at Pivotal Software Inc. and is currently focused on helping Pivotal’s top Fortune 100 enterprise customers increase their business agility by educating and transforming their technology teams to deliver software quicker with the help of cloud platforms like Cloud Foundry. Prior to joining Pivotal, he had a varied experience in building software pipelines as well as streamlining IT operations. Kartik also obtained his graduate degree from Carnegie Mellon in the field of cloud computing.