Prerequisites to CD

The rest of this book is dedicated to technical details on how to implement a successful CD pipeline. The success of the process, however, depends not only on the tools we present throughout this book. In this section, we take a holistic look at the whole process and define the CD requirements in three areas:

• Your organization's structure and its impact on the development process
• Your products and their technical details
• Your development team and the practices you adopt

Organizational prerequisites

The way your organization works has a high impact on the success of introducing the CD process. It's a bit similar to introducing Scrum. Many organizations would like to use the Agile process, but...