What is a deployment pipeline?
The deployment pipeline streamlines the deployment and delivery of your enterprise application. It compiles the code, executes all the tests, and securely deploys a new version of the application.
Automating your deployment and delivery processes using deployment pipelines removes manual errors, provides standardized feedback loops to developers, and enables fast product iterations.
Furthermore, when building enterprise products, your organizational structure and development team and pattern will determine the strategies used to create your deployment pipeline, as it can differ from project to project.
However, there are different strategies already used in enterprise projects that can be adopted and modified if necessary.
In deployment pipelines, there are required stages (or elements) that make up a CI/CD pipeline. In the next section, we are going to explore these elements and learn how to set up our deployment pipeline for our demo enterprise...
