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Ci/Cd: case studies over time

9 case studies across 6 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "ci/cd"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: A. Grabner, Akamai, Branch Metrics, CircleCI, Heap, Meetup, Otomato Software, SAP

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2017 (Berlin)

A Staging Environment Per Pull Request: Building Our Own Controller! [B] - Kamal Marhubi, Heap — Heap

Heap built its own Kubernetes controller to give every pull request its own staging environment.

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018 (Shanghai)

Kubernetes CI/CD Practices at Meetup - Rui Chen, Meetup — Meetup

Meetup describes how it built and runs its Kubernetes-based CI/CD practices for its own services.

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 (Seattle)

Migrating Jenkins to Kubernetes Broke Our Brains - Jonathan Hess & Loren Trout, SAP — SAP

SAP recounts the difficulties and lessons from migrating Jenkins to Kubernetes.

Kubernetes and The GitOps Face-Off - Ricardo Aravena & Javeria Khan, Branch Metrics — Branch Metrics

Branch Metrics compares GitOps approaches on Kubernetes based on its own experience.

Abstracting Heavy Lifting: How K8s Speeds Up Multi-Cloud Solution Delivery - Rob Zuber, CircleCI — CircleCI

CircleCI describes how Kubernetes abstractions sped up its multi-cloud solution delivery.

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual

Escaping the Jungle - Migration to Cloud Native CI/CD - Anton Weiss, Otomato Software — Otomato Software

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 - Salt Lake City

How We Made OpenTelemetry Be Our Fitness Tracker for Your CI/CD Pipelines! - N. Woerner, A. Grabner — A. Grabner

From Chaos to Calm: Building a Unified and Scalable CI/CD Pipeline at Akamai - Tomer Patel — Akamai

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026

From Flaky Builds to Self-Healing Deployments: An OTel-Driven CI/CD... Chamod Perera & Shivay Lamba