How much do you know about Keptn? Of is a kind of tool that can be used to integrate almost everything in your DevOps pipeline. We welcome our guest Adam Gardner - A prominent member of the Keptn community who has been there ever since the 0.2 release. Here are the questions that Adam answered in the episode.

1. A brief history of Keptn, Why it started, and What made developers create Keptn?
2. Road to becoming a CNCF incubator
3. Are there any other tools like Keptn out there?
4. Is Keptn, only about cloud-native DevOps automation?
5. How Keptn can help organisations to reduce their MTTR and make monitoring decisions automated?
6. Is Keptn difficult to learn and implement in large-scale implementation?
7. How best the Keptn is suited to open source monitoring tools like Prometheus? Will Keptn work better with Dynatrace?
8. Can users contribute to the Keptn community since it is open source, If so, what are all things they can contribute?

Some Useful Links:

• Check out the Lifecycle Controller! Cloud-native pre-, post-deployment and application health checks.
• A brief history Keptn
• Join us for Kubecon and Keptn Community Day in Detroit! Community booth in the project pavilion, cool demos, main track talks, and a first-ever full-day Keptn event.
• CNCF Road to Incubator Doc
• Slack
• Checkout the episode notes

Welcome to the keptn show. You might be wondering what is Keptn exactly. Keptn pronounced as Captain - is a control plane for DevOps automation of cloud-native applications. Are you facing difficulties in deploying applications in your CI/CD pipeline? Or even are you facing challenges like having multiple tools to build, test, deploy and monitor your application? Keptn is the solution for these challenges and complexities. With Keptn you can deploy your application with ease and hassle-free. It has the ability to test your builds and take decisions on the basis of the SLIs you have provided, whether to deploy the application build to the next stage or to reject the build. This is not it, Keptn also has so many integrations which can be used to integrate with your CI/CD tools, Observability tools, and Incident management tools as well.

Consider a scenario where you have a build that needs to be deployed tomorrow and you are using tools like Azure DevOps, Puppet, Prometheus, and many more to get that build successfully delivered to production. Now, to check the status of the build once it is pushed to delivery you have to go and check each tool and see what is happening with the build. If you have Keptn, it automates each stage of your application delivery and you don’t have to check every tool you are using for the status. You can simply log in to Keptn bridge and see the status of your build.

This is just one of many applications of Keptn. In this podcast, we will bring you such use cases, capabilities, and how two of Keptn to keep you educated. The best thing about Keptn is, that it is free to use and supported by an amazing community of professionals across the world. For more details please visit https://keptn.sh. See you soon.