CI/CD Archives - Cycloid

Best Practices for Using Jenkins in Enterprise Environments (2026 Guide)

By the Cycloid Platform Engineering team, practitioners building and operating enterprise IDPs since 2015. Direct Answer. The 8 best practices for Jenkins in enterprise environments are: (1) use declarative pipelines over scripted, (2) govern shared libraries with versioning and approval, (3) organise pipelines with folder-based hierarchy, (4) implement Jenkins-as-code (Configuration as Code plugin), (5) add … Read more

Terraform CI/CD with Audit Logs: Tools, Setup & Compliance Best Practices

By the Cycloid Platform Engineering team, practitioners building and operating enterprise IDPs since 2015. Last updated: Q1 2026 – Refreshed with Cycloid vs Spacelift vs Atlantis comparison and SOC 2 / ISO 27001 setup guidance. A Terraform CI/CD tool with audit logs automates infrastructure provisioning through a pipeline while maintaining a tamper-proof record of … Read more

Dynamically adding and removing dedicated Concourse workers

Here at Cycloid, we use open-source pipeline engine Concourse in Kubernetes. Over time, we noticed a problem – every time we wanted to add a new worker (in Concourse, the worker is the entity responsible for executing the scheduler’s operations), the process seemed long and inefficient. We decided to see if we could improve it by contributing to Concourse.

The pipeline is a core element of your stack and, in conjunction with infrastructure as code and config management, is an essential part of your environment. We decided it needed a little more love, and we’re proud to present our latest release which does just that. The new and improved Cycloid pipeline introduces two major improvements that will make managing your pipelines intuitive and safer, and a third improvement that will make ops very happy indeed!