Explaining continuous deployment (CDP) is easy. Implementing it is very hard, and the challenges are often hidden and unexpected. Depending on the maturity of your processes, architecture, and code, you might find out that the real problems do not lie in the code of a continuous deployment pipeline, but everywhere else. As a matter of fact, developing a pipeline is the easiest part.
That being said, you might wonder whether you made a mistake by investing your time in reading this book since we are focused mostly on the pipeline that will be executed inside a Kubernetes cluster.
We did not discuss the changes in your other processes. We did not explore what a good architecture that will support CDP pipelines is. We did not dive into how to code your application to be pipeline-friendly. I assumed that you already know all that...
