4 Introducing continuous deployment

This chapter covers

  • Differentiating between delivery and deployment
  • Delivering an application to an artifact repository
  • Deploying an application to a hosted service
  • Using health checks to verify your application is running

You get to work early. After dropping your stuff off at your desk, you migrate to the coffee machine. As you arrive, you see a group of operations people talking. You’d like to say this is a coincidence, but it’s not. You know that the operations team gets in early and that this is the best time to talk to them.

Greeting them, you casually mention the demo you have been working on. Someone groans: “I can’t see how they can expect us to keep doing this. We just don’t have the resources ...

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