CI/CD

As an execution environment for CI/CD workloads, we use Concourse. We however abstract from the underlying "build executor" and instead offer a Pipeline Definition Contract, through which components declare their build pipelines as required.

In order to run continuous delivery workloads for all components contributing to the Gardener project, we operate a central service.

Typical workloads encompass the execution of tests and builds of a variety of technologies, as well as building and publishing container images, typically containing build results.

We are building our CI/CD offering around some principles:

• container-native - each workload is executed within a container environment. Components may customise used container images
• automation - pipelines are generated without manual interaction
• self-service - components customise their pipelines by changing their sources
• standardisation

Learn more on our: Build Pipeline Reference Manual