Webinar: End-to-End CI/CD with GitLab and DC/OS

Editor's Notes

• #5: The traditional approach of running modern enterprise apps organize (or silo) the infrastructure based on the technology being used. You might have a cluster for Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, and so on. This is because these services are distributed systems with their own scheduling logic to grow and shrink their footprint, so operators run them in different clusters to avoid resource conflicts. The result is extremely low utilization, and waste of infrastructure resources. The DC/OS approach turns the entire logical datacenter (on prem, cloud, or both) into one giant computer - it does this by running an agent on your existing servers and aggregates how the resource is being used. A DC/OS powered datacenter therefore runs like a single computer. Just as your personal computer wouldn’t ask you which core to run your web browser, this giant computer with DC/OS runs all modern apps services with no requirement for intervention by an operator. With DC/OS, all components of modern apps can be pooled: containerized microservices, big data services for analytics and data persistence. This approach effectively abstracts modern apps with the underlying infrastructure (physical, virtual or cloud), and has several benefits. 1: First, pooling drives higher utilization without impacting performance, and delivers capex savings. 2: Second is automation with dramatically simplified app development, rollout, and production operations - you can imagine the silos on the left being true for every phase of the software development lifecycle (dev, test, staging, prod) 3: Third is the ability to plug in datacenter-wide services - whether they be for CI/CD, data services, or services yet to come. 4: Lastly, this whole approach accelerates innovation because we dramatically lowers the technical expertise you need in your organization to use or experiment with new technologies (e.g., the next spark)
• #6: The reason DC/OS is able to power all modern app components is because it was designed from the ground up to tackle this problem. In 2010, Mesosphere co-founder Ben Hindman published Mesos at Berkeley, applying lessons learned from Google and Facebook’s proprietary hyperscale platforms. This technology was applied at Twitter and AirBnB, where Mesosphere’s two additional co-founders, Flo and Tobi applied the technology to resolve their own infrastructure challenges. Since launching DC/OS in 2015, we’ve seen tremendous traction, and recently HPE and Microsoft announced strategic investments, integrating our product into their overall offerings. Lastly, earlier this year, to bring the power of DC/OS to the open source community, we launched the open source DC/OS project, under Apache 2.0 license with over 60 organizations. http://www.wired.com/2013/03/google-borg-twitter-mesos/
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• #26: If you’re not that familiar with GitLab, you may only know of us as a version control and code review tool. While that is where GitLab started, we’ve since expanded our offering to bring issue tracking, social coding, CI/CD, and monitoring into a single UI, making GitLab the only product that covers the entire software development lifecycle. In just a few minutes, you can deploy GitLab to a container scheduler, add CI/CD with automatically deployed review apps, utilize ChatOps, and analyze your cycle time. So if you want to design, code, build, deploy, and monitor an application, you can now do all of that straight from within GitLab. But no software development tool is an island, so we integrate with many other tools and platforms so teams can use GitLab in the way that works best for them, which is what we’re here to talk about today.
• #27: We’re often asked what the difference is between GitLab’s Community Edition, Enterprise Edition and GitLab.com. This is it in a nutshell. Our Community Edition is available to host yourself at no charge, and the source code is open to view and improve on by anyone. Our self-hosted Enterprise Edition comes in two packages, Starter and Premium, and comes with additional features suitable for larger organizations, like canary deployments, service desk, file locking, disaster recovery, priority support and loads more. You can try it out for free by visiting the URL on your screen - no credit card is required. Lastly, GitLab.com runs GitLab Enterprise Edition and is hosted by us. It comes in a few different price plans depending on your needs – you can check them out at the URL on the right.
• #28: I’ll wrap up with an overview of what makes Mesosphere as a company unique and the right partner for you. From a technology perspective, our product is the only platform that can run the full enterprise modern app elastically - containers, microservices, and stateful data services. And the technology is mature, proven in production and at scale in mission critical datacenter for Fortune 100 companies. Additionally, we are the easiest way to get Mesos up and running, and the easiest way to install, operate, and scale datacenter services that are commonly used to build apps or support developer workflows. DC/OS is also an evergreen ecosystem where the latest and most popular open source technologies can be easily deployed and accelerate innovation in your business. From an experience perspective, we are experts on open source software like Mesos, and have a lot of operational experience building & operating these systems at scale, and helping enterprises be successful.