Architecting a build pipeline
Build pipelines are the progression of logical development, quality and delivery steps; these steps define the way a software project will be built, delivered, and tested. By implementing build pipelines, we are crafting a solution where build packages or containers flow through repeatable delivery processes in a continuous manner. Gates are added to the pipeline to ensure that quality metrics are collected, and integration defects are identified. Each gate defined in the pipeline represents a go/no-go determination. Eventually, the automation solution vets and releases a build through the complete pipeline and into a production or released status.
As we hinted earlier, production does not always need to apply to cloud-based ...
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