Python Continuous Integration and Delivery: A Concise Guide with Examples

© Moritz Lenz 2019

Moritz LenzPython Continuous Integration and Deliveryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4281-0_11

11. Pipeline Improvements

Moritz Lenz¹ 

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Fürth, Bayern, Germany

 

The pipeline from the previous chapter is already quite usable and vastly preferable to manual builds, distribution, and installation. That said, there is room for improvement. I will discuss how to change it to always deploy the exact version that was built in the same instance of the pipeline, how to run smoke tests after installation, and how to extract a template from the Go continuous delivery (GoCD) configuration, so that it becomes easily reusable.

11.1 Rollbacks and Installing Specific Versions

The deployment pipeline developed in the previous chapters always installs ...