As editor-in-chief here at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud and writing for several other publications I see more than my share of contests, promotions and other marketing campaigns (not to mention pitches from PR agencies), but I came across one this week that I really wanted to share with you.  My friends at CloudBees, the Jenkins company are once again running their Breaking Builds promotion.  In case you don’t know about it, it combines two very different characters. The Butler from Jenkins and Walter White from Breaking Bad. As Sacha Labourey, CEO of CloudBees says in his blog post on the contest morphing these two together is “probably one of the best examples of cognitive dissonance you can get.”

The marketing and engineering teams at CloudBees have come up with a series of banners with graphics of the Butler as Breaking Bad characters, especially Water White.  They then have come up with captions for the images that are spoofs of lines from Breaking Bad and also have a Continuous Delivery angle to them.  You can see what they have come up with here. Your mission if you accept it is to take the graphics and come up with a better caption than the CloudBees team. You then tweet the image with your caption and you’re entered.

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Which of the following best describes how you currently monitor and manage systems across your hybrid cloud environment?(Required)

Multiple separate tools for different environments

Multiple separate tools for different monitoring and management functions

Single consolidated dashboard

Custom built monitoring and management solution

No full monitoring and management solution

Don’t know

How valuable would it be for your monitoring and management solution to incorporate predictive analytics to help you identify and address system issues that are critical and not waste time or effort working through all the data and “noise” that is not critical?(Required)

Extremely valuable

Moderately valuable

Somewhat valuable

Slightly valuable

Not valuable

How do you most typically address potential system issues BEFORE they impact your operations?(Required)

Automated workflows and playbooks to remediate potential issues as soon as they are detected

An orchestrated response process that leverages automation, AI, and human expertise to rapidly respond to potential issues

Advanced monitoring tools such as predictive analytics and anomaly detection to proactively identify and address potential issues

Respond to issues as they arise, using manual processes and troubleshooting techniques

A combination of automated remediation, orchestrated response, and/or proactive monitoring to address potential system issues

Don’t know

Other

What methods does your organization use to control and monitor cloud/IT spending?(Required)

Centralized procurement processes

Pre-approved budget thresholds

Automated cost monitoring tools

Department-level spending controls

Regular cost audits and reviews

Cloud cost optimization platform

Approval workflows for resource provisioning

Native financial operations tools provided by the cloud provider

No formal controls in place

Don’t know

Other

Please specify:

Which methods do you rely on most to detect security vulnerabilities in your systems?(Required)

Automated scanning tools

Manual assessments

Vendor notifications

Threat modeling (for early detection)

None of these

Don’t know

Other

Please specify:

What are the TWO most common ways you prioritize vulnerabilities to address within your environment?(Required)

Based on potential impact

Based on exploitability

Regulatory compliance requirements

Based on CVSS scores

Risk-based analysis of multiple factors

First-in-first-out approach

No formal prioritization process

Don’t know

How do you typically handle system updates and security patches?(Required)

Automated updates and patches

Manually review and apply updates and patches on a regular schedule

A combination of automation and manual review

Apply updates and patches on an as-needed basis.

Outsourced update and patch management

No defined process

Don’t know

Other

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There are prizes for several categories of captions. The categories are

• Most Original Caption for any of the 10 #BreakingBuilds images + your caption
• Most Humorous Caption for any of the 10 #BreakingBuilds images + your caption
• Most ReTweeted Twitter post* for any of the 10 #BreakingBuilds images + your caption *Dare we call this CI (Continuous Interaction)?  😉
• Most Favorited Twitter post for any of the 10 #BreakingBuilds images + your caption
• We may also create additional categories during the contest if we see an emerging theme!

The categories, prizes and full rules are also available here.

Personally my favorites of the images and captions done by CloudBees are these two:

So if you are a Jenkins and/or a Breaking Bad fan why not join in the fun. Give it a try. We will also feature some of the winning banners here on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud