Automating Platform Upgrades at eBay
Summary
eBay recently provided insights into their adoption of a pipeline-driven automation solution, enabling them to achieve continuous updates to their framework and infrastructure. By leveraging the automation solution, eBay streamlines the preparation, execution, and validation of jobs, resulting in a notable boost in productivity. Due to the scale and intricacy of the platform, these upgrades occur in a continuous manner, reflecting the ongoing evolution and enhancement of eBays systems. This process entails transitioning the cloud infrastructure from openstratus, which relies on virtual machines, to Kubernetes, which operates with container-based technology. The team believes their pipeline-based automation solution will be a key capability for supporting future infrastructure and framework upgrades.