Chapter 1: The Fundamentals of Delivery and Deployment
Any company that builds and maintains applications is automatically concerned with repeatability, reliability, and scalability. In fact, some of the main metrics that are monitored on an application are directly related to these operational concerns. Understanding the basics and history of the industry when attempting to accomplish the ultimate trifecta of software administration is paramount to learning from the issues of the past.
In this chapter, and throughout this book, you will embark on a journey with a DevOps team as they attempt to conquer the deployment and delivery world. By experiencing the pains, bottlenecks, and setbacks with the DevOps team, you will understand how the industry has evolved, and what needs to be accomplished in order to succeed.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- How did we get here?
- What is a deployment process?
- What is a delivery process?
- What makes any practice continuous?
