There is a lot of detail in the following overview diagram of the CD pipeline, and you most likely won't be able to read all the text. Don't worry about this at the moment; we are going to delve deeper into the details as we go along.
For the time being, it is enough to understand that when we work with DevOps, we work with large and complex processes in a large and complex context.
An example of a CD pipeline in a large organization is introduced in the following diagram:
While the basic outline of this diagram holds true surprisingly often, regardless of the organization, there are, of course, differences, depending on the size of the organization and the complexity of the products that are being developed.
The early parts of the chain, that is, the developer environments and the CI environment, are normally very similar...
