The reality is that until now most of us can’t continuously and safely deploy to production – whether it’s due to lack of confidence, security concerns or contractual obligations. The number of outages caused by production updates is growing and the ever-increasing observability of our systems doesn’t make SRE work any less stressful. Cloud native technologies are supposed to make operating complex distributed systems easier – but the CD gap is still not closed.

New approaches such as GitOps and Progressive Delivery strategies are getting more widely known but are still hard to pull off for anyone but the most technologically advanced teams.

We at Canarian and Otomato believe CD doesn’t have to be so hard. In the last 4 years we’ve helped a number of orgs with their continuous deployment effort – both for SaaS and enterprise systems. We clearly see the need for better tooling and semantic change management that will allow us to modify information systems with heightened agility, stability and built-in support for continuous experimentation.

At the meetup I’ll outline the gaps in current cloud native CD approaches and show how the OSS CD solution we are working on will revolutionize software delivery in the cloud-native world.