Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference - 16th and 17th May

Abstract

CICD pipelines are the backbone of modern software delivery, yet they are often treated as fragile black boxes. Failures slow down development velocity, erode trust, and introduce significant operational risk. This session focuses on moving beyond simple pass/fail checks by applying operational rigor and SRE principles to build truly resilient, efficient, and observable CI/CD workflows using open-source tools. Topics covered:

• Deep Pipeline Observability: Instrument CI/CD using OpenTelemetry for metrics, logs & distributed traces. Find bottlenecks & failure causes fast.
• Designing for Reliability: Implement patterns like idempotency, automated retries with backoff, checkpointing, and graceful failure handling to minimize the impact of transient issues.
• Performance Optimization: discuss techniques for reducing pipeline execution time and resource consumption through intelligent caching, parallelization, and optimized artifact management.
• Integrated Security Checks: Treat security scanning/signing as reliable operational gates.
• Data-Driven Deployment Strategies: Leverage OTel insights for automated deployment analysis & rollbacks.

Key Takeaways

• Understand how to apply SRE principles (observability, reliability, performance) to CI/CD operations.
• Learn practical methods for instrumenting CI/CD pipelines using OpenTelemetry to gain deep operational insights.
• Discover patterns for designing more resilient and fault-tolerant pipeline workflows.
• Identify techniques for optimizing pipeline speed and resource efficiency.
• Learn how to leverage observability data to enable safer, automated deployment strategies.

Audience Level

Suitable for any level of audience interested in CICD, DevOps and Observability.

Speaker Bio

Devashish Patil

Devashish is an experienced cloud-native developer currently working at Google, and specializing in the design and development of complex systems across diverse cloud platforms. He has successfully tackled projects of varying sizes and technical intricacies throughout his career.

As an active member of the tech community, Devashish frequently shares his insights through blogs, forums and by speaking at technical meetups and local conferences.

Anmol Krishan Sachdeva

Anmol is a seasoned International Tech Keynote Speaker (delivered 75+ talks), a Distinguished Guest Lecturer, an active conference organizer, and has published several notable papers. He works at Google and focuses on Emerging Technologies.

Anmol has years of rich experience in crafting large-scale distributed systems that span across complex hybrid cloud ecosystems.

He has spoken at renowned conferences like KubeCon, PyCon(s), Open Source Summit(s), Google Cloud NEXT, etc. in the past.