CircleCI Adds Enterprise-Focused Capabilities to Growing CI/CD Ecosystem>
Application Development Trends Magazine – John K. Waters
Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform provider CircleCI has announced new platform additions aimed at furthering the extensibility of its platform and growing ecosystem.

A new version of the company’s server hosting option, Server 3.0. This self-hosted solution was designed to provide new users with CI/CD under the strictest security, compliance, and regulatory restraints, the company says. Server 3.0 offers the ability to scale under load and run multiple services at once, all within a private Kubernetes cluster and network on Google Kubernetes Engine or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). New functions in the company’s reusable configuration offering, “orbs.” CircleCI’s orbs are open-source, shareable packages of parameterizable, reusable configuration elements, including jobs, commands, and executors. Orbs automate thousands of repeated DevOps processes. The company says it has nearly doubled its orb registry, which currently offers more than 2,000 orbs. New integrations with Terraform, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Codecov, and others “to deepen efficiency, productivity, and scale for users,” the company says, along with a new Slack orb that allows users to customize and receive unlimited event notifications. A new self-hosted solution, CircleCI runner, which allows users to build and release on a wider variety of architectures, and have the ability to choose which jobs run in the cloud and on their own infrastructure. A new partnership with Arm with support for Arm64 architecture.
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