7 CI/CD pipelines as code

This chapter covers

  • Designing a CI/CD pipeline as code on GCP
  • Two-stage deployments for separating static and dynamic infrastructure
  • Iterating over complex types with for_each expressions and dynamic blocks
  • Implicit vs. explicit providers
  • Creating custom resources with local-exec provisioners

CI/CD stands for continuous integration (CI) / continuous deployment (CD). It refers to the DevOps practice of enforcing automation in every step of software delivery. Teams that practice a culture of CI/CD are proven to be more agile and able to deploy code changes more quickly than teams who do not practice a culture of CI/CD. There is also the ancillary benefit of improving software quality, as faster code delivery tends ...

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