Preface
To streamline the complexity of building and maintaining modern applications, demand for the role of DevOps engineer has blossomed. This way of thinking focuses on shrinking the bottlenecks between IT operations and software development, having its origins in lean manufacturing concepts.
By embracing DevOps release management, software development teams benefit from incorporating quality checks and shifting left, by moving testing, automation, and QA procedures much earlier into the software development life cycle. However, release management still requires monitoring applications and infrastructure components, in addition to managing change orders and schedules.
In this book, you will learn a brief history of release management, what DevOps release management is, how it is unique, and basic strategies to implement it. You will be shown how CI/CD pipelines enforce good DevOps release management and learn techniques to optimize them. Lastly, you will learn how to create a culture of cross-functional product development that reduces waste and increases value to the customer. Because of its usefulness in removing silos that isolate team members, DevOps release management is emerging as the most popular strategy currently being adopted.
