CD Demands Continuous Testing - Why We Built a Testing Platform Layer on ECS Using Spinnaker

Learn how JPMorgan Chase built a comprehensive testing platform layer on Amazon ECS using Spinnaker to address the challenges of continuous testing in a distributed deployment system. Discover the transition from "bring your own environment" testing approaches to a centralized infrastructure solution that supports mandatory functional testing requirements in a highly regulated financial environment. Explore the design decisions, technical tradeoffs, and complexity management strategies involved in operating Spinnaker as a strategic deployment tool for public cloud deployments. Understand how the team solved the critical problem of providing test execution contexts when moving from Jenkins-based testing with closures to a distributed system architecture, and gain insights into the operational challenges of supporting continuous testing at enterprise scale in the cloud.