Faster Time to Market with CICD

On this week's Office Hours Hangout we chat with two +Rackspace DevOps engineers about increasing code velocity, and some best practices around adopting a CICD mentality. 

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Episode 101 : Faster Time to Market with CICD

Recorded Live: 6-4-2015

Participants
Hosts:
Alan Bush: @AlanBush
Drew Cox: @DrewCoxSA
Guests:
Martin Smith: @martinb3 – DevOps Engineer
John Schwinghammer – DevOps Engineer

Highlights
News
New Rackspace Datacenter in London (3:22)
Object Rocket Dedicated MongoDB (3:44)
Rackspace Solve: London (4:11)
EMC and Microsoft Partner Awards (4:51)

What is CICD? (5:58)
Why CICD? (10:11)
CICD First Steps (13:08)
Benefits of Collaborative Tools (15:15)
Testing Tools (17:52)
Q&A – DevOps on a Budget (25:15)
Recommendations on Getting Started with CICD (29:00)
Testing Strategies (38:39)
Infrastructure as Code (41:15)
Community and Testing (44:00)
CICD Words of Wisdom – Making Changes (49:32)
Wrap Up (55:13)


Links
2014 State of DevOps Report [pdf]

Announcing Dedicated ObjectRocket for MongoDB