Agile + DevOps East 2021 Concurrent Session : Containerizing Tests In Your CI/CD Pipeline

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Wednesday, November 17, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Containerizing Tests In Your CI/CD Pipeline

Managing your continuous integration server is an essential part of practicing DevOps, but it's easy to let it run away from you. Domain-specific languages, plugins, and configurations can result in servers so heavily customized that the test environment ceases to be replicable, and you become locked into your specific choice of CI server. Your CI server might not support the tool you're trying to use. Containerization is a simple way to push back against creeping complexity in your CI server. With containers, you can define configuration as code alongside your test, produce modular, reusable test artifacts, and are not limited to tools that your CI server supports. In this presentation, we’ll take a look at cases when you might want to use containers to package your tests, as well as when not to. We’ll also look at a few simple examples of containerized tests in a Jenkins pipeline using Docker and a sample app, and discuss the benefits of doing so. This presentation targets developers and DevOps engineers building CI/CD pipelines or creating automated tests.

Matthew Taylor is an accomplished full-stack Developer and DevSecOps engineer with experience working in large agile programs for both commercial and federal clients. His broad range of skills includes designing, implementing, and maintaining DevSecOps (CI/CD) pipelines including containerization technologies like Kubernetes, Data Science, Machine Learning, security testing, and test automation. He is an ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Fundamentals and the Foundations of DevOps.