Am I a curmudgeon? Not to take away from this cool writeup, but I'm familiar with a few CI/CD tools, particularly QuickBuild, Jenkins and Spinnaker. So this jumped out at me:
> Our CI process was pretty standard: Every commit in an MR triggered a GitLab Pipeline, which consisted of several jobs.
me: nodding silently
> Those jobs would run in an auto-scaling Kubernetes cluster with up to 21 nodes
> Our CI process was pretty standard: Every commit in an MR triggered a GitLab Pipeline, which consisted of several jobs.
me: nodding silently
> Those jobs would run in an auto-scaling Kubernetes cluster with up to 21 nodes
me: what the actual deuce?
Is this really "pretty standard"?