Continuous Delivery

Continuous delivery is a method that enables you to produce software faster and more reliably than previously possible. The cornerstone of this technique is the Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CD pipeline) that largely automates software rollouts and provides a repeatable, low-risk way to supply new releases. This book teaches you all about the technology you need to successfully set up a CD pipeline.

Major topics include:

• Infrastructure automation using Chef, Docker, and Vagrant
• Automating builds and continuous integration
• Acceptance testing, capacity testing, explorative testing
• Implementing CD in your company
• CD and DevOps
• The effects of CD on software architecture

A typical technology stack provides a working example, and the book provides plenty of tasks and ideas for further experimentation to help you get to grips with the subject. You will then be able to assess the potential advantages of CD and implement it in your own company environment.

This new edition has been revised to cover changes to Docker, Jenkins, Graphite and the ELK stack, and includes sections on new topics such as Docker Compose, Docker Machine, Immutable Server, Microservices, and the implementation of Continuous Delivery without DevOps.