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CD Foundation Announces CDEvents, a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of event dataSAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the open source software foundation that seeks to improve the world's capacity to deliver software with security and speed, today announced it is hosting the CDEvents project, a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of event data to provide interoperability across services, platforms and systems. Today's CI/CD systems do not talk to each other in a standardized way. Defining a standard set of specifications is critical in solving the interoperability issues across the continuous delivery (CD) ecosystem. Having a common format for events in the CD space will enable an ecosystem of tools to collect, store, visualize and analyze events across CD platforms. This will cover use cases like measuring DevOps metrics and performance and visualizing end-to-end workflows, from the initial development all the way to operations and remediation flows. The current release of the CDEvents specification is available here: https://github.com/cdevents "The modern software factory relies on several components that power the development, building, testing, deployment and monitoring of complex applications. CDEvents facilitates interoperability between these systems by providing a shared dictionary for describing artifacts and their metadata," said Andrea Frittoli, Open Source Developer Advocate at IBM, co-creator of the CDEvents project and member of the CDF Technical Oversight Committee. "CDEvents open the doors to scalable and decoupled integrations within the software supply chain and create the potential for greater visibility and measurability of continuous delivery workflows." The lack of a common way of describing events means developers must constantly re-learn how to consume events. This also limits the potential for libraries, tooling and infrastructure to aid the delivery of event data across environments, like SDKs, event routers or tracing systems. "The Continuous Delivery Foundation is actively improving the developer experience. CDEvents increases interoperability between CI/CD tools and enables greater automation and observability within CI/CD systems. The CDEvents specification has broad applicability and is a great example of how the Continuous Delivery Foundation aims to help practitioners of CI/CD, regardless of industry or company," said Kara de la Marck, Senior Ecosystem Advocate for the CD Foundation. "Help us build better tools. Test the CDEvents specification for yourself!" CDEvents has received a large amount of industry interest with contributors from many of the major CI/CD tools providers as well as from end-user companies. There exists a Proof of Concept implementation proving that Tekton and Keptn can communicate over a common event protocol. Supporting Quotes: "CDEvents specification, based on CloudEvents, provides the CI/CD ecosystem with a unified way to send and receive events happening inside the modern system that may potentially include dozens of different tools and implementations. It is a great step towards Interoperability of the components in this space, and also towards Open Observability and transparency of software supply chain. On behalf of the CDF Technical Oversight Committee, I would like to thank the CDF Events SIG, and all contributors to the specification and to the implementation. We are looking forward to adopting the standard in Keptn and Jenkins communities." DeployHub Ericsson Dynatrace doWhile/VolvoCars For more information on the CDEvents project, see https://cdevents.dev/ Additional CDEvents Resources
Additional CD Foundation Resources About the Continuous Delivery Foundation The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) seeks to improve the world's capacity to deliver software with security and speed. The CDF is a vendor-neutral organization that is establishing best practices of software delivery automation, propelling education and adoption of CD tools, and facilitating cross-pollination across emerging technologies. The CDF is home to many of the fastest-growing projects for CD, including Jenkins, Jenkins X, Tekton, and Spinnaker. The CDF is part of the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about the CDF, please visit https://cd.foundation. The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Media Contact: View original content:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cd-foundation-announces-cdevents-a-vendor-neutral-specification-for-defining-the-format-of-event-data-301549143.html SOURCE CD Foundation |