INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
There are few open-source projects as complex as OpenStack, which essentially provides large companies with all the tools to run the
equivalent of the core AWS services in their own data centers
To build OpenStack various systems the team also had to develop some of its own DevOps tools, and, in 2012, that meant developing Zuul, an
open-source continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform
Now, with the release of Zuul v3, the team decided to decouple Zuul from OpenStack and run it as an independent project
It not quite leaving the OpenStack ecosystem, though, as it will still be hosted by the OpenStack Foundation.
Now all of that may seem a bit
complicated, but at this point, the OpenStack Foundation is simply the home of OpenStack andother related infrastructure projects
The first one of those was obviously OpenStack itself, followed by the Kata Containers project late last year
Zuul is simply the third of these projects.
The general concept behind Zuul is to provide developers with a system for automatically
merging, building and testing new changes to a project
It extensible and supports a number of different development platforms, including GitHub and the Gerrit code review and project management
tool.
Current contributors include BMW, GitHub, GoDaddy, Huawei, Red Hat and SUSE
&The wide adoption of CI/CD in our software projects is the foundation to deliver high-quality software in time by automating every integral
part of the development cycle from simple commit checks to full release processes,& said BMW software engineerTobias Henkel
&Our CI/CD development team at BMW is proud to be part of the Zuul community and will continue to be active contributors of the Zuul OSS
project.&
The spin-off of Zuul comes at an interesting time in the CI/CD community, which is currently spoiled for choice
Spinnaker, Google and Netflix are betting on an open source CD platform that solves some of the same problems as Zuul, for example, while
Jenkins and similar projects continue to go strong, too
The Zuul project notes that its focus is more strongly on multi-repo gating, which makes it ideal handling very large and complex projects
A number of representatives of all of these open-source projects are meeting at the OpenDev conference in Vancouver, Canada that running in
parallel with the semi-annual OpenStack Summit there, and my guess is that we&ll hear quite a bit more about all of these projects in the
