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Airports, the challenges of the CI/CD market, authentication woes.

Plus:

“Why don’t you just do this.”
86.1 degrees.
The cold side of the pillow.

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Whole lotta CI/CD goin’ on

• CloudBees acquires software automation startup Electric Cloud, French coverage.
  • Jay@451’s summary: “Given the sprawl of tools and platforms for enterprise DevOps and CI/CD software releases, CloudBees' purchase of Electric Cloud represents a welcome consolidation in the industry. It also continues DevOps M&A that began with JFrog's acquisition of Shippable earlier this year. The deal should also have a broad impact on enterprise DevOps since CloudBees – backer of the widely used Jenkins CI server – will add release management, orchestration, automation and other aspects of CD from Electric Cloud, a leading enterprise DevOps specialist. The combined offerings should help provide feedback for enterprises throughout CI/CD release processes, enabling and enhancing feedback loops that are critical to successful DevOps implementations. The move may also help both vendors address the use of cloud-native software such as containers and Kubernetes, as well as hybrid cloud infrastructures that span on-premises, public and private cloud environments.”
  • Electric Cloud has ~110 employees, CloudBess ~400.

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