Grokking Continuous Delivery

2 A basic pipeline

In this chapter

• working with the basic building blocks: pipelines and tasks
• learning the elements of a basic CD pipeline: linting, testing, building, publishing, and deploying
• understanding the role of automation in the execution of pipelines: webhooks, events, and triggering
• exploring the varied terminology in the CD space

Before we get into the nitty-gritty of how to create great continuous delivery (CD) pipelines, let’s zoom out and take a look at pipelines as a whole. In this chapter, we’ll look at some pipelines at a high level and identify the basic elements you should expect to see in most CD pipelines.

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To understand what goes into basic CD pipelines, we’ll take a look at the pipelines used for ...