Summary
In this chapter, we examined how to expand the capabilities of a CI/CD pipeline more in line with real-world needs. You learned how to create a Cloud Build trigger on an external repository, integrate a Cloud Deploy delivery pipeline with automated testing, and use Pub/Sub to initiate an approval workflow with a third-party workflow management tool.
You might not need these more advanced topics immediately, but once your DevOps pipeline is running, you could find these helpful when it comes to improving the overall experience.
Connecting the pipeline to third-party tools extends the range of what’s possible. Many different third-party capabilities, such as Agile project management, metrics, source code repositories, and alerting tools, exist outside of the native capabilities of Google’s first-party software.
This chapter also touched on some of the advanced first-party options in Cloud Deploy, such as automation. These advanced first-party options,...