+ Zuul Celebrates 10th Anniversary +
+Authored by Clark Boylan, June 7, 2022
++ At the OpenInfra Summit this week, the Zuul community is celebrating + the 10th anniversary of the release of its open source continuous + integration (CI) project gating software designed to help developers + stop merging broken code. Volvo, BMW, and Workday are among the + organizations on hand to showcase the value of Zuul and share their + production use cases. +
+![10 Years](../images/zuul-ten.png)
+ Zuul, a project supported by the OpenInfra Foundation, uses project + gating to automate continuous integration, delivery and deployment of + interrelated software projects in a secure manner. Built for a world + where development, testing and deployment of applications and their + dependencies are one continuous process, Zuul delivers sophisticated + project gating across the entire enterprise, especially in scenarios + involving multiple repositories with integrated deliverables. Zuul + enables teams to rapidly develop fully tested software in parallel + and benefit from zero-downtime operation. Zuul 6.0 was released in + May. +
++ "Having been involved with the project since its very beginning, I am + proud of how far Zuul has come in 10 years," said James Blair, the + original author of Zuul, current maintainer and founder of Acme + Gating. "After 10 years, Zuul continues to lead in the CI and CD + space. Having pioneered project gating, we went on to add + cross-project dependencies, shared CI and CD pipelines, speculative + container builds, and more. Thanks to an involved community of users + and contributors, Zuul is getting better by the day, making a real + difference in the lives of developers and improving the outcomes of + the organizations who are using it." +
++ Volvo Cars Corporation will take center stage at + OpenInfra Summit this week to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Zuul. + During a Day Two keynote address, Johannes Foufas, senior principal + engineer at Volvo, will describe how Zuul features are used as the + first line of integration for all modules in the core computer of + Volvo automobiles. He'll also share how Volvo has significantly + expanded its use of Zuul over the past year to deliver increased + quality and faster integrations of all application code. He'll be + joined by Blair to talk about how their collaboration has enabled the + operational features they need to be shared upstream. Foufas will + also lead a separate general session to offer more in-depth details. +
++ "It's an honor for Volvo Cars Corporation to help celebrate Zuul's + 10th Anniversary by sharing our experiences with the OpenInfra + community," said Foufas. "Zuul is the default CI system for the code + in our cars. In our core computer platform at Volvo, we have hundreds + of modules that depend on each other, comprising repositories from + all around our company. With Zuul's built-in dependency management, + we went from a week of integration to 3.5 hours. We have not reached + our final goal, but we have made great progress and look forward to + sharing our experiences and improvements with the global Zuul + community as we progress." +
++ BMW and Workday are also sharing their production use cases at the + three-day OpenInfra + Summit: +
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- + BMW will describe how Zuul continues to drive + innovation in the automotive industry, sharing why it has chosen + to operate Zuul and contribute to the Zuul community. This + session will include the turning points of BMW's journey in + scaling CI with Zuul, fueled by the development of Zuul v5. + +
- + Workday has built one of the largest + OpenStack-based private clouds in the world, hosting a workload + of over a million physical cores on over 16,000 compute nodes in + 5 data centers for over ten years. Workday will share its new + architecture and deployment approach as well as lessons learned, + including how they migrated from Jenkins to + Zuul. + +