Continuous Delivery pipelines

Benefits:

• visibility
• feedback
• control
• automated change management
• enforced process
• compliance
• safety (guardrails)
• repeatability
• consistency
• reduce cognitive load
• audit trail
• automated rollbacks

Usage

• continuous delivery of application code
• continuous delivery of infrastructure
• continuous delivery of data
• continuous delivery of database schema management
• continuous delivery of documentation

Presentations

• Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble, Berlin, October 2012
• CI/CD in Light Speed with K8s and Argo CD - Intuit, KubeCon North America 2018
• Controlling Pipeline Sprawl - Angel Rivera, DeliveryConf 2020
• Continuous Delivery for Legacy Code - Richard Gross, BuildStuff 2019
• Continuous Delivery at Spotify - Slava Kalmykov, January 2020
• Continuous Delivery of Data - Dave Farley, GOTO Night 2020
• Build a Spinnaker pipeline in highly regulated bank environment - AbdulBasit Kabir, Spinnaker Summit 2020

Articles

• AWS: Automating safe, hands-off deployments - Clare Liguori
• AWS: Ensuring rollback safety during deployments
• AWS: Going faster with Continuous Delivery
• Amazon's approach to high-availability deployment
• AWS: Move fast in the right direction
• Managed Delivery: Evolving Continuous Delivery at Netflix