I have worked in Continuous Delivery projects for yet-to-be-famous tech startups and with well-established companies like Apple, Yahoo!, GoPro, ThoughtWorks, Walmart.com and PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd. I share my experience of releasing software from a source code control repository to Production, and how the manual processes can be fully automated with good design and smart decisions. This book discusses Continuous Delivery Pipeline design and implementation aspects from a software engineer/architect's perspective and provides thought leadership for teams starting out to build a Continuous Delivery Pipeline. This also helps teams fine-tune and improve ROI for their existing pipelines.

I have worked in Continuous Delivery projects for yet-to-be-famous tech startups and with well-established companies like Apple, Yahoo!, GoPro, ThoughtWorks, Walmart.com and PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd. I share my experience of releasing software from a source code control repository to Production, and how the manual processes can be fully automated with good design and smart decisions. In this book, I zoom in on the choking points, so that my readers can accelerate through their own design and implementations. This is how I have structured the book: Chapter 1: Introduction Eases my readers into understanding and appreciating a Continuous Delivery Pipeline, removes confusion between Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, gives a brief introduction about me and who I am grateful to. Chapter 2: Pipeline Architecture and Design Establishes basic definitions, explains how CD's success depends on the Product Architecture, designs the CD Pipeline Architecture, designs the various stages of the Pipeline from Git to Production, talks about Pipeline Visualization and the emphasizes the importance of managing Pipeline artifacts. Chapter 3: Continuous Testing - Choking Points Discusses the types of tests that need to be done in the Pipeline, the tests that are not types by themselves but just concepts, a three-tier Test Framework Design that improves maintainability, Test Data Strategy and Data Generation techniques, the downside of traditional Test Case Repositories and Test Reporting as part of Continuous Delivery. Chapter 4: Continuous Deployment - Choking Points Discusses dependency management, pre-deploy hooks and post-deploy hooks, anxiety about deployment to Production and Immutable Infrastructure. Chapter 5: Code Promotion - One Stage At A Time Discusses institution of software gates that allow/disallow the flow of code from one stage of the Pipeline to the next, all the way to Production through a Continuous Delivery environment. Chapter 6: Release and Change Management Discusses Feature Branches, respecting the Mainline, Feature Toggles, Release Toggles, Business Toggles, Rollback Strategy, A/B tests and Canary Releases. Chapter 7: The Magnificent Seven Discusses the seven areas, which have tripped Continuous Delivery teams in the past, namely Cloud, Big Data, Data Science, Databases, Mobile, People and Budget. Chapter 8: Continuous Delivery Analytics Detailed discussion on success metrics, pre-production signals, post-production signals, Stability Index and its relationship to signals and designing Continuous Delivery dashboards that measure ROI. Chapter 9: CD-as-a-Service Talks about designing a CD Minimum Viable Product, discusses offering the CD platform as a PaaS such that teams can sign a Pipeline Contract and hop on, discusses the structure of the Pipeline Contract and how to make CD-as-a-Service secure. Chapter 10: Continuous Delivery in an Agile Framework Discusses the importance of having a single, prioritized Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Feature Team, Product Owner and their roles in CD, Scrum Master, Tech Lead, DoD - Definition Of Done, Impediment Backlog and how code is the new documentation, unless it's spaghetti. Chapter 11: The Beginning Discusses CD patterns and anti-patterns and illustrates how Continuous Delivery can be applied to industries other than software. Chapter 12: Resources Places where you can find great information. Overall, this book discusses Continuous Delivery Pipeline design and implementation aspects and provides thought leadership for teams building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Tools is an evolving area and this book focuses on the big picture, instead of making strong recommendations on any tool. While I mention a lot of different tools that I have used in the industry, my readers are encouraged to do their own research.

Continuous Delivery Continuous delivery is all about making software deployments possible at any moment on demand. You achieve continuous delivery ensuring your code is always in a deployable state. By implementing continuous delivery, you are eliminating those phases which follow traditional software development practices. Some of the greatest benefits of continuous delivery include faster time to market, low-risk software releases, higher quality of product and services, significantly lower costs and happier teams. This may sound way too good to be true. Yet this is all true, but keep in mind that continuous delivery is not magic. You have to focus on daily improvements and constantly pursue changes and experiments. Getting software released to your users often is very challenging and time-consuming. Fortunately, you have an option to turn towards continuous delivery practices that will enable incremental delivery of high-quality functionalities to your users. This book is going to be your best companion on this journey no matter, which size your business is. Here Is A Preview Of What You Will Learn... How to move from agile movement towards DevOps and continuous delivery What are the basics of continuous delivery The evolution of continuous delivery and its connection to continuous deployment The greatest continuous delivery benefits for your business Costs of implementing continuous delivery How to successfully overcome the most common continuous delivery challenges How do deal with too many automation tools The basic test automation framework The main continuous delivery principles Turning towards continuous improvement The continuous delivery pipeline The deployment pipeline orchestration How to implement continuous delivery And much, much more! Get this book NOW and learn more about Continuous Delivery!

Continuous Delivery is the ability to get changes of all types--including new features, configuration changes, bug fixes, and experiments--into production, or the hands of users, safely and quickly in a sustainable way. The practices at the heart of continuous delivery can bring several important benefits such as low-risk releases, faster time to market, higher quality, lower costs, better products, and so on. To know more about its significant functions, let's read this book.

Build and use systems that safely automate software delivery from testing through release with this jargon-busting guide to continuous delivery pipelines. In Grokking Continuous Delivery you will learn how to: Design effective CD pipelines for new and legacy projects Keep your software projects release-ready Maintain effective tests Scale CD across multiple applications Ensure pipelines give the right signals at the right time Use version control as the source of truth Safely automate deployments with metrics Describe CD in a way that makes sense to your colleagues Grokking Continuous Delivery teaches you the design and purpose of continuous delivery systems that you can use with any language or stack. You’ll learn directly from your mentor Christie Wilson, Google engineer and co-creator of the Tekton CI/CD framework. Using crystal-clear, well-illustrated examples, Christie lays out the practical nuts and bolts of continuous delivery for developers and pipeline designers. In each chapter, you’ll uncover the proper approaches to solve the real-world challenges of setting up a CD pipeline. With this book as your roadmap, you’ll have a clear plan for bringing CD to your team without the need for costly trial-and-error experimentation. About the technology Keep your codebase release-ready. A continuous delivery pipeline automates version control, testing, and deployment with minimal developer intervention. Master the tools and practices of continuous delivery, and you’ll be able to add features and push updates quickly and consistently. About the book Grokking Continuous Delivery is a friendly guide to setting up and working with a continuous delivery pipeline. Each chapter takes on a different scenario you’ll face when setting up a CD system, with real-world examples like automated scaling and testing legacy applications. Taking a tool-agnostic approach, author Christie Wilson guides you each step of the way with illustrations, crystal-clear explanations, and practical exercises to lock in what you’re learning. What's inside Design effective CD pipelines for new and legacy projects Ensure your pipelines give the right signals at the right times Version control as the source of truth Safely automate deployments About the reader For software engineers who want to add CD to their development process. About the author Christie Wilson is a software engineer at Google, where she co-created Tekton, a cloud-native CI/CD platform built on Kubernetes. Table of Contents PART 1 Introducing continuous delivery 1 Welcome to Grokking Continuous Delivery 2 A basic pipeline PART 2 Keeping software in a deliverable state at all times 3 Version control is the only way to roll 4 Use linting effectively 5 Dealing with noisy tests 6 Speeding up slow test suites 7 Give the right signals at the right times PART 3 Making delivery easy 8 Easy delivery starts with version control 9 Building securely and reliably 10 Deploying confidently PART 4 CD design 11 Starter packs: From zero to CD 12 Scripts are code, too 13 Pipeline design

This book has TWO purchase options: 1) Color eBook. 2) Bundle of color paperback and color eBook. View, print, and download all diagrams from http://continuity.world/2017-book. Connect if you have questions at http://continuity.world/connect. Processes, amongst other things, can exponentially improve organizational culture. This book lays the foundation of building resilient processes for transformational leaders who aspire to drive culture change in their organizations. The principles of DevSecOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery form the recipe for success, and Continuous Improvement is at the heart of it. As you plow through the chapters of this book, you will virtually experience the thrills and the shivers of leading a crucial transformational change. And you will be able to define the next chapter of your very own journey. This is how I have structured the book: Chapter 1: Introduction Eases my readers into understanding and appreciating a Continuous Delivery Pipeline, extends the concepts to Continuous Everything and Everyone, and gives a brief introduction about myself. Chapter 2: Continuous Delivery As A Domain Domain-driven design (DDD) is known to be overkill for simple problems. After careful consideration of the issues that plague product releases (software, firmware, embedded systems, Internet of Things, * as a service, and the like), I decided to model the Continuous Delivery Pipeline as a domain. Chapter 3: Pipeline Domain Model Integrity In an academic setting of model-driven-development, we try to maintain a consistent and unified model throughout the teams. In reality, there could be many teams who work on different parts of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline ecosystem and the model tends to fragment. However, aspects of the model that are important should stay unified and other parts could be offered for customization. Chapter 4: Continuous Analytics And Insights Teams are required to zoom in and solve hard problems every day. While it is paramount to be able to get down on our knees and dig in, it is just as important to be able to zoom out and fathom the big picture. We need to see the forest through the trees. We should emphasize on learning patterns and trends over a period of time that offer direct insights into our business. These help us make tough calls that pay rich dividends in the long run. Chapter 5: A DevSecOps Seed Backlog A single prioritized Product Backlog is a key driver of an organization''s growth and sustainability. This chapter enables Product Owners to address epics related to not just Development but also Builds, Tests, Configuration, Deployment, Monitoring, KPIs, Operations, Network, Security and related issues that help teams experiment safely and turn great ideas into products. More importantly, this helps teams recover fast from not-so-great ideas. Chapter 6: The Twelve-Factor Pipeline Inspired by The Twelve-Factor App, the Twelve-Factor Pipeline establishes the same gold standards for the Pipeline application, as are applied to the products that flow through the Pipeline. Chapter 7: Segregation/Separation Of Duties Segregation of duties or separation of powers is a controversial topic in organizations that have dwelled on a legacy hierarchy long enough to confuse separation of duties with separation of departments. This chapter establishes guidelines on how we should implement Continuous Delivery Pipelines that improve speed, quality, and predictability without risking business. Chapter 8: Myth Busters Some organizations fall prey to age-old beliefs that have inherent flaws. This results in modernized approaches getting the boot and new gen tech leads stumbling over bureaucracy and red tape. This chapter pulls up the most damaging myths and addresses the elephant(s) in the room. Chapter 9: Resources Lists a set of resources.

A step-by-step guide to implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) for Flutter, Ionic, Android, and Angular applications. KEY FEATURES ● This book covers all Declarative Pipelines that can be utilized in real-life scenarios with sample applications written in Android, Angular, Ionic Cordova, and Flutter. ● This book utilizes the YAML Pipeline feature of Jenkins. A step-by-step implementation of Continuous Practices of DevOps makes it easy to understand even for beginners. DESCRIPTION This book brings solid practical knowledge on how to create YAML pipelines using Jenkins for efficient and scalable CI/CD pipelines. It covers an introduction to various essential topics such as DevOps, DevOps History, Benefits of DevOps Culture, DevOps and Value Streams, DevOps Practices, different types of pipelines such as Build Pipeline, Scripted Pipeline, Declarative Pipeline, YAML Pipelines, and Blue Ocean. This book provides an easy journey to readers in creating YAML pipelines for various application systems, including Android, AngularJS, Flutter, and Ionic Cordova. You will become a skilled developer by learning how to run Static Code Analysis using SonarQube or Lint tools, Unit testing, calculating code coverage, publishing unit tests and coverage reports, verifying the threshold of code coverage, creating build/package, and distributing packages across different environments. By the end of this book, you will be able to try out some of the best practices to implement DevOps using Jenkins and YAML. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Write successful YAML Pipeline codes for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. ● Explore the working of CI/CD pipelines across Android, Angular, Ionic Cordova, and Flutter apps. ● Learn the importance of Continuous Code Inspection and Code Quality. ● Understand the importance of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. ● Learn to publish Unit Tests and Code Coverage in Declarative Pipelines. ● Learn to deploy apps on Azure and distribute Mobile Apps to App Centers. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is suitable for beginners, DevOps consultants, DevOps evangelists, DevOps engineers, technical specialists, technical architects, and Cloud experts. Some prior basic knowledge of application development and deployment, Cloud computing, and DevOps practices will be helpful. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.Introducing Pipelines 2.Basic Components of YAML Pipelines 3.Building CI/CD Pipelines with YAML for Flutter Applications 4.Building CI/CD Pipelines with YAML for Ionic Cordova Applications 5.Building CI/CD Pipelines with YAML for Android Apps 6.Building CI/CD Pipelines with YAML for Angular Applications 7.Pipeline Best Practices