April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
646 pages
16h 48m
English
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Continuous delivery
Continuous delivery is a simple extension of the continuous integration idea. This approach to software engineering aims to ensure that the application can be released reliably at any time. The goal of continuous delivery is to release software in short circles. It generally reduces both costs and the risk of releasing software by allowing the incremental delivery of changes to the application in production.
The following are the main prerequisites for building successful continuous delivery processes:
- A reliable continuous integration process
- An automated process of deployment to the production environment (if the project has a notion of the production environment)
- A well-defined version control system workflow or branching ...