werf turns 8!

[shurup]

The werf project turned 8 years old this week. In 2016, it started as an in-house tool created by Flant and originally called dapp. Today, it is hosted in CNCF Sandbox and used for building and deploying apps to Kubernetes in the CI/CD pipelines of thousands of projects worldwide.

To mark werf's eight-year anniversary, here are eight noteworthy recent events associated with the project:

1. werf has officially become a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project at the end of 2022.

2. In February 2023, we released a significantly revamped werf documentation following our users’ feedback.

3. In April 2023, The first werf tutorial by KTH Royal Institute of Technology students was published on Killercoda.

4. In May 2023, the “Install and run” documentation section got its new structure and content to cover more cases of using werf.

5. Our Aleksei presented a talk on werf during KCD Czech Slovak 2023 and delivered a CNCF webinar later.

6. In July 2023, we published our 6th Kubernetes guide! In addition to JavaScript (Node.js), Java (Spring Boot), Python (Django), Ruby (Rails), and PHP (Laravel), a guide for Go developers became available, helping them to learn how to build containers with their apps and deploy them to Kubernetes.

7. We have started developing Nelm to substitute Helm 3 in werf. It fixes the lingering problems in Helm to improve the deployment process in werf. While it’s already used in werf, Nelm will be available as a library and separate tool, too.

8. Of course, new articles about werf were emerging regularly — find some of them listed here.

We are now focused on making Nelm an independent Open Source project, expanding our collaboration with contributors, and publishing more articles about CI/CD in GitHub Actions and GitLab using werf.

Thank you for keeping an eye on the project, opening issues, making commits, posting comments, chatting in our cosy Telegram chat, and just using werf! ❤️ Stay tuned! 🙌