Solving CI/CD (Continuously Interrupted/Continuously Disappointed)

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment are two popular practices that have yielded huge benefits for many companies across the globe. Yet, it’s all a lie.

Although the benefits are real, the idea behind CI&CD is largely aspirational for most companies, and would more properly be titled, “The Quest for CI/CD: A Not-So-Merry Tale.”

Because, let’s face it, there is still a lot of waiting in most CI/CD. To avoid false advertising claims, perhaps we should just start adding quiet disclaimers with asterisks, like so CI/CD**.

The waiting still comes from multiple parts of the process, but most frequently, teams are still waiting on data. Waiting for data provisioning. Waiting for data obfuscation. Waiting for access requests. Waiting for data backup. Waiting for data restore. Waiting for new data. Waiting for data subsets. Waiting for data availability windows. Wait for database deployments. Waiting for Bob to get back from lunch — even when devs just generate their own data on the fly– QA and Testing get stuck with the bill. (I am talking to three F100 companies right now where this last issue is the source of some extreme pain).

I wish I could say that any one technology could solve all data issues (I have seven kids and that fact alone would pay for their entire college fund). But, I can say that Delphix solves some very real and very big data issues for some of the world’s biggest and best known brands, through the power of DataOps. It allows organizations to leverage the best of people, process, and technology to eliminate data friction across all spectrums.

Here I share a video of how I tie Jenkins together with Delphix to provision, backup, restore, and share data in a automated, fast, and secure manner. This video explains how I demonstrated some of the functionality in my Delphix SDLC Toolchain demo.

**excluding those things that we obviously have to wait for.