OpenTelemetry in your CI/CD (Ship It! #27)

In this episode, Gerhard is joined by Cyrille Le Clerc, Product Manager Lead on Observability at Elastic, and Oleg Nenashev, Principal Engineer at CloudBees.

It all started with Oleg’s tweet back in July, in which he was promoting Akihiro Kiuchi’s work on Jenkins monitoring with OpenTelemetry. This was done in the context of Google’s Summer of Code - a link to Akihiro’s demo is in the show notes.

As you may remember from episode 20, instrumenting our changelog.com pipeline is on Gerhard’s mind, and this conversation helped him clarify a few things. If you are thinking of instrumenting your CI/CD pipeline with OpenTelemetry, this episode is for you.

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Featuring:

• Cyrille Le Clerc – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Oleg Nenashev – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Oleg’s tweet that started this discussion
• 🎬 CDF GSoC 2021 - Jenkins Remote Monitoring - Akihiro Kiuchi
• The ecosystem of CI / CD tools that integrates in #OpenTelemetry - Cyrille
• OpenTelemetry command-line tool for sending events from shell scripts & similar environments
• 🎬 Tracing Your Jenkins Pipelines With OpenTelemetry and Jaeger
• 🎬 Embracing Observability in Jenkins with OpenTelemetry - Cyrille Le Clerc, September 2021
• DevOps World 2021 - watch all sessions on-demand
• Jenkinsfile Runner roadmap - Discussion
• jenkinsci/opentelemetry-plugin
• The OpenTelemetry Maven Extension
• Ansible OpenTelemetry Plugin

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!