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October 2024

How to use CircleCI Support Center: Submitting tickets and accessing resources

CircleCI Technical Success Manager, Nico, guides you through using the CircleCI Support Center to efficiently resolve issues and access support. Learn how to navigate the Support Center, use the knowledge base, and utilize the AI widget for quick answers. Nico also explains how to submit a support ticket, ensuring it reaches the right team—whether for build issues, billing, or advisory services.

Reduce storage costs on CircleCI: Managing artifact, cache, and workspace retention

In this video, CircleCI’s Technical Success Manager, Adrian, walks you through simple yet effective strategies for managing storage costs on CircleCI. Learn how to adjust retention periods for artifacts, caches, and workspaces to significantly reduce credit usage each month. Adrian covers how to review storage usage in the CircleCI UI, identify high-storage components, and set optimal retention durations. Ideal for teams looking to lower overhead costs on CircleCI while maintaining efficient builds. Start saving credits and optimizing your storage strategy today!

Optimizing resource utilization with CircleCI: A guide to right-sizing

Learn how to maximize efficiency and minimize costs with CircleCI by right-sizing your resources. In this video, CircleCI's Technical Success Manager, Nic, demonstrates how to adjust resource allocations for jobs based on utilization trends, helping you optimize CPU and RAM usage, reduce credit consumption, and prevent resource overuse issues like out-of-memory errors. Discover tips on monitoring resource usage, leveraging the insights tab, and using CircleCI’s Usage API for automated tracking. Perfect for developers looking to streamline their CI/CD workflows and get the most out of CircleCI’s platform!

What is GitOps? Continuous delivery to Kubernetes with ArgoCD

With the increasing adoption of Kubernetes in recent years, there are various means and tools for achieving continuous delivery to Kubernetes. While it is possible to create a consistent CI/CD pipeline up to deploying to Kubernetes using CI/CD tools like CircleCI, there has been a rise in cases combining dedicated CD tools like FluxCD and ArgoCD to achieve this as well. A common aspect among these CD-dedicated tools is their adoption of GitOps.