Using Python for CI/CD Pipelines

I’ve missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

– Michael Jordan

In the past, when I was but a young college graduate (some two years ago), the term that kept coming up, right after being taught how to make a website, was Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). CI/CD was something that my college course did not teach. Most college courses do not; it is not enough of an academic exercise. However, if you’re a DevOps engineer, this is all you’ll do. This is your job. And Python is a great tool for doing your job better.

I have often described Python as a great facilitator, that is, as a tool that makes all other tools better. And that is the concept that we will explore further in this chapter. Python is a language...