Summary
Automation plays a key role in DevOps. We looked at the important tools that make up a DevOps toolchain, especially those parts of the toolchain that are orchestrated from building and testing to deployment, creating the CI/CD pipeline or the pipeline.
CI typically includes activities that happen to code changes after they have been committed to version control. This may include preliminary testing, and upon passing, they may be built together and packaged into an artifact based on language and technology.
CD continues from where CI leaves off by taking the build artifacts and applying them to testing or production environments. Here, environments will be reconfigured, possibly with new resources. Additional testing will be performed to ensure security, correctness, and validation of anticipated value.
DevOps topologies outline possible models of collaboration between Dev and Ops teams with the possible inclusion of people specializing in DevOps. Some of the topologies...
