From Demo to Deployed in 1 week!

Last week I posted about a cool, impactful, project I worked on and demo'd to the company at our weekly Engineering demo's.  I also posted this about setting up a bastion host so that anyone can  clone the project in git and run it themselves.

The bastion host setup was in preparation to go from demoWare to making the demo work within the Kippernetes CI/CD framework getting my shit merged to master - which it is now!  😎

What was amazing to me is not just the work I did, hell I only got to the 1 yard line, it was folks on my team like +jay vyas and Alan Bradley who took my work over the goal line.  Could I have done it?  Yes, would we have done the work in 1 week?  Maybe, maybe not.  Team effort is needed to succeed, and for me to learn and improve.  Sometimes that's a PR and code review, other times it's just everyone doing what they do best to get it done.

I was so damn happy when I saw the first real CI/CD test get kicked off and work!

See that?  Failing: 0


What's even cooler is today I found that some of the docker-compose tests were failing - and it was because there was a real bug that had been checked in last night!

This really re-enforces a couple things for me:

1. I actually do have the skill set to do DevOps, and my request to transfer to a DevOps role is the right thing for me
2. Automate everything you can, and push back on manually testing beyond doing so as a first pass and as a means to an end of automating said manual test.  Now don't get me wrong, there are some tests that either can't be automated or automating those tests is so complex that there is little to no ROI

More cool shit coming!

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