Conclusion

In this chapter, we learned that we could get off to a great start by being green from go! By automating the deployment of our application build and packaging tools, Jenkins and Helm can establish a technical foundation that will allow our teams to integrate continuously (CI) and continuously deploy (CD) our code to production.

We learned that we can align our developer code workflow across our team and begin to iterate on our CI/CD pipelines to help us deliver applications faster. We can increase code quality and understanding by pairing developers together to help shorten the code review feedback loop.

As a team, we learned all of these new skills and techniques together by trying mob programming and, in the process, said goodbye to our love for Unicorn developers.

Figure 6.22: Adding technical practices to the foundation

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