Part 3 – Expanding Your DevOps Pipeline

In this part, you will learn about other DevOps practices that build upon the strong foundation of Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) discussed earlier in Part 2 , Getting to Continuous Delivery. You will learn about how to establish a robust Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) process to manage your infrastructure in the cloud, as well as streamlined upgrades and migration of your backend databases without incurring any loss of information.

We will also look at continuous testing practices to understand more about the concept of “shift-left quality.” This involves embedding quality concerns in our pipelines from the start and continuously verifying them, resulting in the faster delivery of a secure and high-quality product.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 7, Dependency Management
• Chapter 8, Implement Infrastructure and Configuration as Code
• Chapter...