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• Importance of standardizing CI/CD processes, managing them as a "kettle" rather than individual "pets"
• Security considerations for build systems and production environments
• Supply chain security within the CICD space and importance of dependency updates and scanning
• Open telemetry instrumentation for continuous delivery pipelines
• Audit trails and logs management for release and build processes
• Importance of capturing accurate information in the bill of material
• Verification and trust requirements for Jenkins and CI systems
• Incremental journey of verifying captured data and metadata on builds
• Integration of Captain Obvious with OpenTelemetry and Jenkins
• Exposure of quality gate information to enable verification
• Plans for integrating Captain with other tools and systems
• Update on the status of Captain Obvious project, including its integration into Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• Discussion of the vibrant community surrounding Captain Obvious
• Discussion about living in Switzerland
• Open source standard "open telemetry" for observing CICD pipelines
• Importance of exposing data from CICD processes
• Data analysis for optimizing pipelines and decision-making
• Standardization of open telemetry events
• Adoption and growth of the open telemetry ecosystem
• Future plans for donating code to the open telemetry community
• Progress on open telemetry Ansible integration
• Donating Ansible integration to the community
• Iterating and rolling out inside Elastic
• Jenkins evolution roadmap to be published soon
• Future projects in observability and open source
[0.08 --> 5.52] I'm your host, Gerhard Lassi, and you're listening to Ship It, a podcast about code,
[6.02 --> 9.72] ops, infrastructure, and the people that make it happen.
[10.18 --> 16.48] Yes, we focus on the people and what happens when their best ideas meet the real world.
[17.08 --> 17.34] Why?
[17.74 --> 23.02] Because that's how we learn, get inspired, and find out what is worth doing.
[23.26 --> 29.52] Today, I'm joined by Cyril Leclerc, Product Manager, Lead on Observability at Elastic,
[30.00 --> 33.36] and Oleg Dinashev, Principal Engineer at Cloudbeast.
[33.80 --> 36.34] It all started with Oleg's tweet back in July,
[36.64 --> 42.28] in which he was promoting Akihiro Kiuchi's work on Jenkins Monitoring with OpenTelemetry.
[42.66 --> 45.28] This was done in the context of Google's Summer of Code,
[45.62 --> 49.10] and there is a video with Akihiro demoing this project in the show notes.
[49.38 --> 51.42] As you may remember from episode 20,
[52.00 --> 54.94] instrumenting our changelog.com pipeline is on my mind,
[55.24 --> 58.62] and this conversation helped me clarify how I'm going to approach it.
[58.62 --> 60.88] I have learned a lot from Oleg and Cyril,
[61.24 --> 64.44] and if you're thinking of doing something similar, this episode is for you.
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[174.30 --> 193.32] So, Akihiro Kiyuchi presented Jenkins CI agents monitoring with open telemetry,
[193.68 --> 196.40] and Jager, Zipkin, and Prometheus was included.
[196.40 --> 200.96] And one of the goals, or like one of the reasons why I did that,
[201.36 --> 205.16] was to minimize the downtime and set up costs of Jenkins agents.
[205.36 --> 208.68] That was like one of the presentation, like the screenshots which I've seen.
[209.42 --> 214.12] Now, Akihiro couldn't join us today, but we have Cyril and Oleg joining us.
[214.62 --> 218.50] And we'll be talking about open telemetry in your CI and why is it important.
[218.50 --> 224.32] And I'm wondering, what can you tell us about the presentation that Akihiro gave back in July, I believe?
[224.64 --> 225.44] I haven't seen it yet.
[225.58 --> 226.66] Is it live? Can we watch it?
[226.78 --> 227.38] Yes, it's live.
[227.56 --> 232.78] So, it was a project within the Jenkins community as a part of the Google Summer of Code this year.
[233.44 --> 238.48] Akihiro was one of the students, and he chose visibility with open telemetry.
[238.78 --> 242.00] Originally, the project was rather positioned towards Prometheus,
[242.30 --> 244.96] but taking the recent developments and the ecosystem,
[244.96 --> 251.04] we decided to press it with open telemetry and actually to try all three parts should time allow.
[251.38 --> 253.98] So, metrics, visibility, and logs.
[254.12 --> 256.54] For us, it was one of the missing parts of the puzzle
[256.54 --> 259.68] because we already have open telemetry plugin for Jenkins.
[260.00 --> 263.52] So, Cyril and many other contributors created it.
[263.76 --> 267.74] But this plugin focuses on Jenkins controller as one of the instances.
[268.22 --> 270.92] At the same time, Jenkins itself is a distributed system.
[270.92 --> 275.58] It has agents, and actually agents may prove to be quite unstable,
[275.82 --> 278.08] especially if you use multi-cloud environments,
[278.60 --> 281.58] if you use various cloud provisioning, single-shot agents,
[281.70 --> 283.32] which are just the day after the completion.
[283.74 --> 288.12] So, it's essential to have some tracing and monitoring for these systems
[288.12 --> 292.08] so that you can ensure that your CI environment is operational.
[292.70 --> 296.40] And of course, if you can also verify that it's cost-effective, it would be super.
[296.40 --> 302.26] Okay. So, this tracing was happening on the agents, not on the Jenkins master,
[302.74 --> 306.22] so that when the jobs run, there will be visibility into the jobs
[306.22 --> 310.24] and into the availability of the agents, of the Jenkins agents themselves.
[310.38 --> 310.74] Is that right?
[310.94 --> 311.42] Yes.
[311.86 --> 312.10] Cyril?