In the previous section, we saw the life cycle of microservices development. The life cycle stages can be altered by organizations based on their organizational needs, but also based on the nature of the application. In this section, we will see a sample continuous delivery pipeline, as well as tools set to implement a sample pipeline.
There are many tools available to build end-to-end pipelines, both in the open source and the commercial space. Organizations can select the products of their choice to connect the pipeline tasks.
Refer to the Xebialabs periodic table (https://xebialabs.com/periodic-table-of-devops-tools/) for tool references to build continuous delivery pipelines.
The pipelines may initially be expensive to set up, as it requires many tool sets and environments. Organizations may not realize an immediate cost benefit in implementing...