ENHANCING CONCOURSE CI/CD PIPELINES WITH REAL-TIME WEBHOOK TRIGGERS: A SCALABLE SOLUTION FOR GITHUB RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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This work assesses the use of webhooks in Concourse CI/CD to effectively manage GitHub resources in the pipeline through triggers. The proposed solution, which allows for replacing traditional polling mechanisms, was proven to provide improvements in pipeline efficiency and resource utilization in addition to being easily scalable. Realtime triggered decreased average trigger latency down to 86.18%, total deployment time by 47.97%, and build time by 16.22%. Resource utilization was also improved, CPU and memory utilizations were reduced by 16% and 22% respectively. Scalability tests that were performed validated the stability of webhook enabled pipelines with a failure rate of less than 2.5% and the through put of 43 builds per hour during the high concurrency testing with 100 concurrent builds. The results of this study underscore webhook triggers as promising for improving the sensitivity and expansiveness of CI/CD pipelines for current and future DevOps methods.
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