Here, we will begin to see how the development and operations roles split as we isolate a parallel set of assets for our application deployments. In doing so, we split out the deployment assets and begin to script the platform deployment in preparation for our CI pipelines in the next section. More specifically, we will now introduce scripts, along with new Docker stack files to manage the deployment of application services.
We will start by breaking out a separate deployment repository from the application deployment repository. This is the place where our deployment scripts and cluster-based test, QA, and prod stack files will live, and will be governed by the system administrators ...