Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD): A Practical Guide to Designing and Developing Pipelines [Paperback]

Use continuous Integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to improve the speed of software delivery. This book presents a game changerhow to use pipelines to automate the software delivery process. The theories about CI/CD are much the same, but the book covers what the development of pipelines looks like and how testing of pipelines themselves should be performed.

Most teams just plunge into coding, without thinking about the CI/CD process itself. Why dont we use the same development method for pipelines that we use for apps?

Pipelines code development undergoes similar stages as application code development, such as requirements analysis, development, testing, implementation, operations, and monitoring. This is the starting point of the book. It describes the current challenges with pipeline development and how this process can be improved and structured. It describes in detail how to design pipelines and shows examples in BPMN 2.0 notation.

What Youll Learn

• Know the shortcomings and challenges of current pipeline development such as misalignment between the pipeline engineer and the teams workflow, the use of infrastructure as code (IaC), and pipeline security
• Understand the need for CI/CD requirements through the book's non-exhaustive list of more than 60 CI/CD requirements provided to inspire and increase awareness
• See how certain choices affect the way a pipeline is designed (and realized)
• Become familiar with branching strategy, build strategy, test strategy, release strategy, and deployment strategy that are explained in detail in the book, including their effect on pipeline design
• Know how pipelines can be unit tested, using a real-world example
• Know how performance lCM