Planning for a full DevOps cycle

It was around 2018 that I got to plan bespoke development workflows.

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A client of the company needed someone to help them figure out just how they can develop and eventually ship new releases of their system. After gaining some development experience on the already existing projects within the company, I was asked to help them - to figure out something that could be workable both for us and for them, as we'd collaborate on the development.

What I did

I ended up focusing on tools that were popular in the industry: GitLab for managing source repositories, Jenkins for continuous integration and delivery, as well as Linux for hosting any environments that would be necessary.

What I learnt

In the end it wasn't just a process where I'd tell them: "Hey, this is how things are going to work." but rather it was something a bit more collaborative - answering a variety of questions and discovering more about the constraints that they were working within.