Week 1: Introduction to DevOps

Unit 4: Continuous Integration and Continuous

Delivery (CI/CD)
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Terminology

▪ One main code line where developers push their changes to, at least once per day
▪ Automated test system (CI server) that automatically qualifies every change
▪ Team’s goal is to keep main code line buildable and testable

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Integration

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Terminology

▪ Everything that continuous integration demands

+ Software is always ready to be deployed to production system
+ Deployment to production system is manual decision
+ Get feedback fast from production system back into backlog of team

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Integration

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Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Terminology

▪ Everything that continuous delivery demands

+ Deployment to production system is automated

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Integration

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Why continuous delivery?

More than half of IT projects still failing

“...55% of the 126 IT professionals surveyed […]
reported they had a project fail…”
https://www.cio.com/article/3068502/more-than-half-of-it-projects-still-failing.html

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Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Why continuous delivery?

More than half of IT projects still failing

“...55% of the 126 IT professionals surveyed […]
reported they had a project fail…”
https://www.cio.com/article/3068502/more-than-half-of-it-projects-still-failing.html

Why IT projects continue to fail at an alarming rate

“…only 29% of IT project implementations are successful, and
19 percent are considered utter failures.”
https://www.information-age.com/projects-continue-fail-alarming-rate-123470803/

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Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Why continuous delivery?

More than half of IT projects still failing

“...55% of the 126 IT professionals surveyed […]
reported they had a project fail…”
https://www.cio.com/article/3068502/more-than-half-of-it-projects-still-failing.html

Why IT projects continue to fail at an alarming rate

“…only 29% of IT project implementations are successful, and
19 percent are considered utter failures.”
https://www.information-age.com/projects-continue-fail-alarming-rate-123470803/

Delivering large-scale IT projects on time, on budget, and on value

“However, 17 percent of IT projects go so bad that they can threaten the very existence
of the company.”
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/delivering-large-scale-it-projects-on-time-on-budget-and-on-value#

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The benefits of continuously delivering software changes

BIG CHANGES, SMALL CHANGES,

DEPLOYED RARELY DEPLOYED
FREQUENTLY
iterations=2

CHANGE
CHANGE

iterations=12
HIGH
RISK

LOW
$ LOST RISK
FAST
ROI

TIME TIME
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Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
The deployment pipeline

Plan Code Build Integrate Test Release Deploy Operate Feedback

loop

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The goal of continuous delivery

Build quality in Faster deployment Faster feedback Better software Happier customer

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Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
What you’ve learned in this unit

▪ The differentiation between continuous integration,

continuous delivery, and continuous deployment
▪ What a deployment pipeline is
▪ The goal of continuous delivery

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i Additional Material
Further reading

▪ Continuous Delivery – Blog by Martin Fowler

▪ The rationale for Continuous Delivery with Dave Farley
▪ Project “Piper”

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