The number of tools and services supporting CI/CD keeps growing. Each tool has its own strengths and enables its own unique use cases. It is not one-size-fits-all, every project needs to be able to select CI/CD tools according to their own needs.

What CDEvents aims to do is to give these tools and services an obvious way to become interoperable through a shared event/messaging protocol, so that true end-to-end continuous delivery pipelines and processes with associated monitoring, metrics and insights can be built without the need for “manually gluing things together”.

Having the freedom to add and replace CI/CD tools and services without needing to worry about compatibility and interoperability issues will help projects keep their delivery processes optimized, and will also enable a new kind of visualization and monitoring tools that can inspect and understand all actors in the CI/CD system without explicitly knowing any of them.