Traditional CI/CD systems have not been designed for cloud-native environments and must evolve. Cloud Native CI/CD presents unique challenges like first-class support for containerized microservices, dynamic orchestration with optimized resource utilization, and continuous delivery mechanisms. Expected benefits of using Cloud native CI/CD are:
- Use of containers for reproducibility.
- Dynamic orchestration for reliability.
- Serverless resource utilization for reduced costs.
- Conformant APIs for portability.
Most traditional CI/CD systems were initially designed for scenarios where artifacts were generated for virtual machines and often use fixed-build agents, which are hard to scale. Support for dynamic orchestration platforms like Kubernetes is not built in natively. This provides less-than-ideal support for cloud-native CI/CD scenarios.
This talk is about the benefits and unique challenges of cloud-native CI/CD and how to address them. Finally, various open-source cloud-native tools like Tekton project, Argo CD, and Jenkins X are presented, and a comparison is drawn among them.
More details: https://confengine.com/conferences/agile-india-2025/proposal/21272
Conference Link: https://2025.agileindia.org