cdCon 2020

As we take a hammer and smash up our monolithic applications into lots of little pieces, we also break the way we track and manage a software application. The software application no longer exists, yet we still need it. The loss of the application is partly responsible for the complexity in managing microservices. This session investigates the core benefits of continuous integration in a monolithic pipeline in terms of the packaging and configuration management of the software application. We will cover why the CI step is critical to the entire Continuous Delivery process, and what we lose as we move to microservices. We will explore the tracking of application versions overtime to remind us of the importance of BOM reports, 'diff' reports, and impact analysis. By looking at what we do well today, we will understand what we need to solve in a microservice based CD Pipeline.