Best CI/CD Practices for Microservice Development

Is your developer platform a roadblock to moving fast? Organizations embracing distributed architectures risk slowing development velocity, increasing management overhead and reducing service discoverability due to their legacy API platforms.

Join Kong’s Senior Solutions Engineer Aaron Miller and Product Marketing Manager Aaron Qayumi as they share how to overcome these challenges and automate delivery at your organization.

You will learn how to:

Boost developer productivity with frictionless onboarding and service discovery
Reduce deployment risk by declaratively configuring Kubernetes and your gateway
Speed up time to market by integrating to CI/CD tools and adopting spec-driven development

Your organization is embracing microservices and distributed architectures. Whether you are just beginning your journey to microservices or are well-versed in building cloud native applications, it is all too common to run into challenges that inhibit your progress.

Join Kong’s Senior Solutions Engineer Nick Rago and Product Marketing Manager Aaron Qayumi for a discussion on the most common challenges to decentralizing applications and services, and how to overcome them.

Learn how to:

- Reduce time to market and improve reliability by applying policies consistently across services
- Transition to distributed systems without being held back by performance limitations of legacy API gateways
- Gain the freedom to support any architecture pattern with a flexible platform for API management

Service mesh is the future of application connectivity, and it delivers immediate value to any architecture by increasing the security, reliability and observability of our application traffic. At the same time, our industry has made it challenging to understand and deploy service mesh in production – but it doesn't have to be this way. 

In this webinar, Kong CTO & Co-Founder Marco Palladino will take you from understanding the basics of service mesh to conceptualizing the most advanced topics, while demonstrating how your team can easily deploy service mesh in production in a few minutes on both modern Kubernetes platforms and more traditional VM-based ones.

Key takeaways:

- The key concepts, benefits and pitfalls of service mesh
- Why leveraging service mesh results in reliable modern applications
- How your team can deploy service mesh in production in a few minutes

What do technology leaders need to know to drive business innovation and remain competitive in 2020?

In our first annual 2020 Digital Innovation Benchmark, we explore how today’s leading organizations are using emerging technologies to enable business innovation. A new survey of senior technology decision-makers revealed:

- Innovate Fast or Die Fast. Nearly 40 percent of technology leaders believe organizations will go under or get acquired by 2023 if they lag behind in digital innovation.

- Digital Transformation: Microservices as an Innovation Driver: Eighty-four percent of organizations have embraced microservices architectures to accelerate innovation efforts and stay competitive.

- Adopting Distributed Architectures and Microservices: The Challenges. More than 40 percent of organizations have challenges with securing, scaling and/or ensuring performance for their APIs when connecting services. Ninety percent of technology leaders agree that securely connecting applications and ensuring performance at scale are one of the greatest technical challenges of the 21st century.


In this roundtable discussion, Kal De of Mirantis, Marcelo da Cruz Pinto of McAfee and Marco Palladino of Kong will share their perspectives on the survey findings and discuss the real-world consequences of falling behind in digital innovation in 2020.

Key takeaways:

- Why microservices-based architectures can be a lynchpin for successful digital transformations

- The challenges that organizations are facing in adopting microservices and how they are addressing these difficulties

- The advantages of using open source as a way to launch new initiatives quickly

- The business impact of not keeping pace with digital innovation

Kong CTO and Co-Founder Marco Palladino is joined by AppDynamics Senior Director of Architecture Ty Amell as they discuss AppDynamics’ journey from monolith to microservices and the cultural change that had to occur to support it.

Want to know what’s next for enterprise software development? Being ahead of the biggest trends shaping the future of software development represents a critical advantage for organizations of all sizes. This Kong Summit panel features leading investors behind some of the biggest infrastructure companies in the market today as they discuss the tools, trends, and technologies shaping the future of how software gets built.

The movement towards cloud native applications has exploded in recent years, as Kubernetes has rapidly grown to be the most widely used container orchestration system available and Envoy has emerged as an innovative edge and service proxy. Cloud native technologies allow organizations to move quickly and scale with modern-day architectures. Our panel of cloud native experts discuss lessons in deploying, using and optimizing cloud native technologies including serverless, service mesh to effectively manage microservices applications at scale.

Building any good structure requires starting at the foundation, and architecting for engineering success is no different. Cargill’s Sr. Architecting Engineer, Jason Walker and Lead API Engineer, Colin Schaub discuss how to build a model for engineering success from the ground up. This session covers the goals for building a strong engineering culture, incorporating lean concepts into engineering processes, establishing core principles that empower decision making, generating self-service oriented delivery patterns, and more.

|As containers continue to gain mainstream adoption, Kubernetes is emerging as the de-facto standard to improve the performance, scalability and uptime of containerized services and applications. Though the benefits of using Kubernetes for orchestration are well known, practitioners are inhibited by ingress solutions that fail to provide adequate API management capabilities within Kubernetes.

Join us for this special webinar to see Kong for Kubernetes – the industry’s only Kubernetes-native ingress solution that provides end-to-end API management and robust security – in action.

Learn how you can:

1) Unify control and configuration of all your cloud native tools declaratively or via the same kubectl or CRDs.

2) Instantly integrate with CNCF projects such as Prometheus and Jaeger.

3) Leverage Kubernetes namespace-based RBAC model to ensure consistent access controls without adding overhead.

Are you prepared to transition from a monolith to microservices? Organizations worldwide are embracing microservices in an effort to be more agile, but implementation can be challenging. Our Kong Summit 2019 panel of industry leaders discussed the challenges and strategies for transitioning towards microservices and how organizations can best prepare to get started.

The pace of innovation continues to accelerate, and building the next era of software requires using the latest tools, technologies and best practices to maximize effectiveness. Our panel of leading industry practitioners discuss what’s at stake in building new software, strategies and tactics for creating change, and lessons they’ve learned in trying to make the future of software a reality at their organizations.

With the latest version of Kong Enterprise now generally available, join us for a special session with Kong Head of Product Reza Shafii to learn about what is new in the release and how to take advantage of these features in your organization.

You will learn how to:

- Optimize your application modernization needs by taking a cloud and Kubernetes native, multi-protocol, and deployment agnostic approach.

- Intelligently automate your development efforts with CI/CD and GitOps ready tools enhanced by predictive and intelligent analytics.

- Build-in governance for your API and service management including spec verification and self-discovery of spec inaccuracies

Microservices adoption is well underway at many organizations. But as development stacks grow in diversity and feature releases that affect multiple services become increasingly common, leveraging CI/CD tools becomes critical to maintaining or improving development velocity.

In this presentation Nijiko Yonskai, engineering manager at Kong, and Mike Bilodeau, senior product marketing manager, present best practices and practical use cases for developing CI/CD pipelines that allow microservices to scale.

Key Takeaways:

1. Understand the advantages of a robust CI/CD process in microservices architectures.
2. Why conventional, manual processes won’t cut it in a microservices architecture.
3. Best practices for designing pipelines that enable microservices to scale.

Kong VP of Engineering Geoff Townsend discusses the “three-headed dragon” of digital transformation and how organizations must be agnostic in their use of language, deployment methods and cloud providers in order to get to the finish line.

Geoff is joined by Apollo Founder and CTO Matt DeBergalis to discuss how organizations can use the new Kong Studio to seamlessly edit, test and publish REST and GraphQL services directly onto the Kong Enterprise runtime and Developer Portal.

Kong CEO Augusto Marietti is joined by Gregory Schier to tell the story of Insomnia and why he’s excited to be a part of Kong.

Besides being a great addition to our portfolio of open source projects, Insomnia is a strategic acquisition to help Kong along our journey to build the service control platform for the future. Insomnia serves as the foundation for Kong Studio, the first-ever feature from Kong focused on helping customers build and test their APIs and microservices.

Kong CTO and Co-Founder Marco Palladino discusses what it takes to run modern infrastructures and how Kuma, a new universal service mesh, can help tackle the challenges that come with decoupling and distributing software. He is joined by Envoy Creator Matt Klein and CNCF CTO Chris Aniszcyk to talk about the importance of open source ecosystems.

We’re on the cusp of a hyper-connected world where more than a trillion devices will be connected in order to power the driverless cars and robotic pharmacists of our future.

Kong CEO Augusto Marietti is joined by GlaxoSmithKline Director of Software Engineering Odean Maye to discuss how this future isn’t too far off.

This overview will show you how Kong Studio’s suite enables spec-first development for all REST and GraphQL services.

Gregory Schier, creator of Insomnia, and Mike Bilodeau, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Kong, will walk us through the newly released Kong Studio.

Key Takeaways:

- Learn about Kong Studio’s advanced design and testing features.
- See how enterprises can leverage Kong Studio to streamline development and facilitate collaboration.
- Get a first-hand look at Kong Studio’s integration with Kong Enterprise and how to automate workflows for publishing services.

An overview of the emerging service mesh pattern and insights into what implementation of this architecture can look like for your organization.

Service mesh is an emerging architecture design that allows organizations to control and measure service to service communications, also known as “east-west” traffic. This pattern is becoming ever more crucial for enterprises that have broken the monolith apart and moved towards microservices.

In this presentation, Marco Palladino and Aaron Miller walk you through the history and evolution leading to the emergence of service mesh.

This presentation will give you:

An overview of the microservices evolution towards the service mesh pattern.
A clear understanding of the benefits and caveats of this approach.
Insights into the types of organizations that are most likely to benefit from implementing service mesh.