Meet Steve Taylor and Tracy Ragan, the driving force behind the Ortelius Project. Steve discusses the technical changes that were implemented in 2023, including the #Emporous sub-project, a unified object reference, and why it is important for managing and storing artifacts. 

Jenkins has experienced continued growth since its original release in 2004 under the name of Hudson. Hear the Jenkins story from Mark Waite, Jenkins Core Maintainer. Mark explains the continued growth of CI/CD over the years and why Jenkins holds 44% of the CI/CD market. 

Spotify Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. It provides a set of TypeScript libraries that can be composed together to build a developer portal for your engineering organization.

It was created inside Spotify and used there for a few years before being open-sourced in 2020. It is now a CNCF Incubating project. It combines a service catalog with a developer portal UI in order to improve engineering effectiveness and overall happiness.

Spotify Backstage can help you tackle a number of different engineering challenges.
 - It collects software, tools, teams, people, and other assets into one place where they can be easily searched and organized. This helps improve discoverability.
 - It tracks teams and software assets and makes it easy to create a clear linkage between them.
 - It makes it easy to define pre-approved templates and create new software from them. This speeds up the software development process and improves production reliability and homogeneity.
 - It is the perfect place to detect when an engineering standard is not being upheld and it can nudge teams in a better direction.

The main features of Spotify Backstage include a software catalog, a framework for building plugins, a place to store technical documentation (TechDocs), Software templates and a scaffolder to run them, and a Kubernetes plugin for providing visibility into how services operate there.

There are two main ways to get started with Spotify Backstage. You can self-host the open-source project, or you can use a SaaS provider such as Roadie.

Join Saim Safder, Ortelius Outreach Committee chair, and Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF, Linux Foundation, for a discussion on the 2022 KubeCon experience. Chris also looks at new CNCF programs, training, mentorship, and ways to contribute to the CNCF in 2023.  

Learn how to cut your cloud bill in half. Learn about Cast.ai,  a cloud cost optimization platform for top K8s performance & savings. Laurent Gil shows us how. 

As the container ecosystem matures, there is an increased need for new standards and runtime environments considering security and provenance concerns, driving the next generation of tools and recommended practices to build container images.

Let's discuss the latest developments in distroless images and the open-source container toolkit developed by Chainguard to build Wolfi, the first Linux un-distro created specifically for the Cloud Native Era.

In this podcast, Michael Crenshaw, Senior Software Engineer at Intuit and core engineer on the Argo CD and Argo Rollouts projects, sat down with beamingortelius podcast host Saim Safdar and discussed the Argo projects, continuous delivery with Kubernetes, and how platform teams can help developers embrace modern release techniques and related technologies. We also try to shed light on how you can start contributing to the Argo eco-system and all the fresh new updates to Argo tooling mostly importantly, we'll be covering most of the KubeCon updates around the Argo community.

Join Andi Grabner, Brad McCoy, Steve Taylor, and Saim Safder on an exploration of CDEvents and the Keptn event-based CD orchestration engine. Keptn is a CNCF project. CDEvents is a Continous Delivery Foundation Project. In this session, the Ortelius community explores the use of CDEvents, and Keptn with an eye toward the next generation of Continuous Delivery management. 

We have always talked about agility in terms of how we write and deliver software. But a big shift in our platform may be the 'last mile' of our agility goal. In this episode meet Mark Eisenberg, Developer Support Account Manager,  Microsoft as he explains how the cloud and containerization facilitate business agility.  Hosted by Saim Safder, Ortelius Outreach Committee Chair. 

Join Saim Safder and Viktor Farcic on an explanation of what GitOps is, why it's cool, and how you can get started on your GitOps Journey.