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  • Saving on CI Costs with an Plugin Conversion
  • Jan. 31, 2023, 12:55 p.m.

  • In the OpenShift CI there is a concept called "rehearsals". These are special jobs, that are run when a job is configured or changed, to test out that job on the CI build farm prior to merging the config change. This feature is popular amongst CI job maintainers as it is a simple way to make s...

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  • Verifying GitHub Automation Access
  • Making Sure Your Bots Have the Access to Do Their Jobs
  • Nov. 14, 2022, 12:23 p.m.

  • As OpenShift's CI provider, the Test Platform team needs to maintain a couple of different GitHub bots and an App. These are collectively known as our "automation". The GitHub app is necessary for man...

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  • Fixing Flaky Tests
  • A Data Driven Approach to Triaging Race Conditions
  • Aug. 2, 2022, 2:09 p.m.

  • The Test Platform team at OpenShift recently had a flaky end-to-end test that was failing around 20% of the time. This test would only fail on our CI servers, and always succeeded when running locally. It was a complex test that was verifying the correct functionality of our Continue reading

  • Making a Decision
  • Getting started is always the right choice
  • March 19, 2019, 9:31 p.m.

  • It's a story as old as time (or at least computers): a programmer has an idea for a hobby project, perhaps something that he thinks will make him a little extra money on the side. The idea flows from his mind straight to his notepad and he is feeling on top of the world with a brand new projec...

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Stephen Goeddel

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