Creating a delivery pipeline

The delivery pipeline defines the order in which your application is delivered to your targets.

Consider a simple sequence of two targets:

• qa: This target represents the runtime environment where you deploy your finished application as you test it to ensure it’s ready to release
• prod: This target represents your final production runtime, where your thoroughly tested application is made available to your users

Of course, you can call these anything you want, but these names reflect a typical set of environments and the order in which you deploy them. The delivery pipeline that you create defines this sequence so that Cloud Deploy can deliver your application to the right runtimes in the right order.

The delivery pipeline is defined in a file called clouddeploy.yaml. You can find this file in the same folder from the cloned repository where you found the skaffold.yaml file and the Kubernetes manifests. The name clouddeploy...