12 Continuous integration and continuous delivery

This chapter covers

  • Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)
  • Reasons to adopt CI and CD
  • The role of tests in building a CI/CD pipeline
  • Version-control checks
  • The advantages of adopting version-control checks

Louis always tells his staff not to bake different parts of a recipe without talking to each other. Pastry chefs who make an éclair’s choux pastry are frequently talking to others making its pastry cream and to those making its chocolate glazing.

When pastry chefs don’t talk to each other, they try to be more efficient by making all the pastry cream they possibly can or baking the bare minimum they need. The problem with this lack of communication is that, often, they’ll ...

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