DevOps is not just about operating the software in production, but also about releasing that software to production. Well-functioning CI/CD pipelines are critical for the business, and this calls for quality observability, to handle broken and flaky pipeline runs effectively. On this episode I hosted Oleg Nenashev, a core maintainer and board member in the Jenkins project, as well as a TOC member in the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). Oleg is a community builder, open source advocate and consultant, now at WireMock Inc. He is also a CDF and CNCF ambassador. We discussed CI/CD, observability, the prominent open source projects and foundations, as well as a new proposal for extending OpenTelemetry to natively support CI/CD observability use cases.

The episode was live-streamed on 10 July 2023 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEbyddZFNeo

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Show Notes:

00:00 - show intro

01:00 - episode and guest intro

10:08 - what’s new in Jenkins

15:46 - is Jenkins cloud-native?

16:52 - understanding the CI/CD landscape

21:54 - updates from the Continuous Delivery Foundation

27:00 - CI/CD observability support in OpenTelemetry

40:31 - observability with Backstage IDP open source

Continuous Observability: Shedding Light on CI/CD Pipelines - OpenObservability Talks S4E02