Concourse in the Real World: A Case Study in CI/CD and DevOps - Greg Meyer & Bryan Kelly, Cerner
summary
Cerner describes a Concourse-based CI/CD system that encodes ISO 9001 signoffs and FDA constraints as pipeline resources, moves artifacts through five environments (dev, dev-tests, QA, staging, prod) with semantic versioning, and produces rollbackable releases; integrations include JIRA/Confluence, Artifactory, Maven and CF CLI resources, Cred Hub and Slack. A PCF automation pipeline (using PCF Pipelines and Concourse pipelines) runs a regulator every 30 minutes, sandbox-tests tile updates and auto-applies an ERT + stemcell upgrade across 220 VMs in ~12 hours with zero human intervention.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and speakers
- 1:02Problem statement and context
- 3:08Pets vs cattle in DevOps
- 5:16Regulatory challenges and ISO compliance
- 7:24CI/CD pipeline challenges
- 9:51Introduction to Concourse
- 13:27Case study alpha pipeline breakdown
- 15:14DevOps pipeline with Concourse
- 18:49Manual PCF updates pain points
- 20:13Automated PCF updates demo
- 23:43Results and benefits of automation
- 25:30Acknowledgments and resources
- 26:07Q&A session
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