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Embracing DevOps Release Management

You're reading from   Embracing DevOps Release Management Strategies and tools to accelerate continuous delivery and ensure quality software deployment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835461853
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joel Kruger Joel Kruger
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle and Its Design
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: A Brief Introduction to Release Management 4. Chapter 3: What Are the Various SDLC Release Management Models? 5. Part 2: The Advantages of DevOps Release Management
6. Chapter 4: What Problems Does DevOps Release Management Try to Solve? 7. Chapter 5: Understanding What Makes DevOps Release Management Unique 8. Chapter 6: Understanding the Basics of CI/CD 9. Chapter 7: A Practical Pipeline for Technical Release Managers 10. Chapter 8: How CI/CD Pipelines Enforce Good DevOps Release Management 11. Part 3: Develop a Culture of DevOps in Your Organization’s Release Management Strategy
12. Chapter 9: Embracing DevOps Culture in Your Release Management Strategy 13. Chapter 10: What Does Receiving Support from Leadership and Stakeholders Look Like? 14. Chapter 11: Overcoming Common Pitfalls in DevOps Release Management 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Exploring release pipelines

A release pipeline is a workflow or a collection of steps that are undertaken to guarantee the swift implementation of recently delivered code. Fundamentally, a well-built release pipeline makes delivery to production quick, easy, and reliable.

The exact stages of a release pipeline are different for each organization and product, but they often follow one another linearly. Notably, a more complex pipeline design may include steps that can be executed in parallel. This trend has become more popular in recent years due to the strategic advantages that parallel processing provides, but also because contemporary tooling has advanced well enough to make this functionality easier to implement without extensive scripting.

Typically, releases are triggered by an event, such as a code commit, although there are instances where the release might be explicitly initiated or scheduled in advance. You may also wish to automate the execution of your pipeline until...

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