Git on IBM i Part 3 - Ray Bernardi

Git is an integral piece to a complete DevOps cycle, a cycle you can easily tie together with tools aware of the intricacies of the IBM i platform. You may like the collaboration Git provides on its own and also want the social features GitHub brings, but how can all that be integrated on a platform which, to be frank, wasn’t built with Agile in mind? It is possible to have the best of both worlds – an Agile workflow which greatly increases productivity and the stability that the IBM i platform brings. This session will show you things you may not have thought possible, such as taking IBM i native code from a GitHub repository, building it directly on IBM i, and deploying the objects to an automated test environment. But it doesn’t stop there! We will examine a complete CI/CD workflow, from a feature branch all the way to a production deployment. All of this and more is possible with a tightly integrated toolset.

Ray Bernardi

Pre/Post Technical Sales - Arcad Software

Ray Bernardi is a 30-year veteran involved in the System 38/AS/400/iSeries/IBM i development and currently is a Pre/Post Sales Technical Support Specialist for ARCAD Software, a global software company and IBM Business Partner. Ray has been involved with the development and sales of many cutting-edge software products throughout his career. Currently, the suite of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) products from ARCAD Software covers a broad range of functional areas from incident request tracking, application cross referencing, source refactoring and control, release and change management. In addition, Ray has spoke and presented at COMMON and many other technical conferences around the world and has authored articles in several System i publications on the subject of application analysis and modernization, SQL, and business intelligence.