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Understanding Life Before DevOps
To appreciate the power of GitLab CI/CD pipelines and the DevOps method of software development, we must understand how software was built before tools like GitLab appeared. Although you won’t learn anything practical in this chapter, you’ll learn about the world that GitLab CI/CD pipelines grew out of and get a clear picture of what problems GitLab CI/CD pipelines solve. Having a grasp of these things will set you up to understand why GitLab CI/CD pipelines operate the way they do and will open your eyes to the amazing power that they bring to the software development life cycle. In short, the best way to understand how things are now is to understand how bad they used to be!
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