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The Rise of Continuous Packaging
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The Rise of Continuous Packaging

by Dan McKinney, Ciara Carey
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
40 pages
54m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 4. Continuous Packaging

Continuous packaging is a checkpoint that all packages, images, and artifacts used in and produced from your build processes and deployments pass through so that you can manage them consistently. Continuous packaging provides security, control, and visibility over all incoming and built assets.

Continuous packaging brings consistency and order to the steps between CI and CD, minimizing or eliminating ad hoc processes, bespoke scripts, unlogged manual procedures, and the use of libraries and packages without knowing their origins.

Continuous Packaging and CI/CD

The modern software development workflow is a DevOps pipeline that uses CI/CD to manage software delivery at scale. With continuous packaging, the CI/CD pipeline falls into three major phases:

Continuous integration
Developers write code that is continuously scanned and integrated before being packaged and pushed to a universal package repository.
Continuous packaging
All packages produced or consumed by the software supply chain are scanned, verified, and isolated from untrusted sources.
Continuous delivery
Packages are promoted through a series of tests, then delivered to customers where they can be deployed on customer or cloud infrastructure.

CI tools take source code changes as they come in, resolving dependencies on other packages or libraries, and build artifacts to be consumed by the CD tools. CI enforces consistency and automates integration, helping reduce problems such as code ...

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