Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD): A Practical Guide to Designing and Developing Pipelines

Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewers
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Pitfalls of CI/CD
	Challenges
		Oversimplified Diagrams and Misalignment
		Lack of Design Patterns
		Vulnerabilities
		Pipeline Testing
		Application Code vs. Infrastructure Code
		Organizing and Maintaining Pipelines
		Technical Constraints
		Legacy
	Summary
Chapter 2: CI/CD Concepts
	Principles
		Positioning of CI/CD
		Application Lifecycle Management
		CI/CD Journey
		Naming Conventions
	Summary
Chapter 3: Requirements Analysis
	Overview
	Way of Working
	Technology
	Information
	Security (General)
	Compliance and Auditability
	Resource Constraints
	Manageability
	Operations
	Quality Assurance
	Metrics
	Monitoring
	Sustainability
	Governance
	Summary
Chapter 4: Pipeline Design
	Design
	CI/CD and Pipeline Design Approach
		BPMN 2.0
		BPMN Elements Overview
		BPMN in Action
		Level of Detail
		Logical Design vs. Realization
	The Generic CI/CD Pipeline
		Validate Entry Criteria
		Execute Build
		Perform Unit Tests
		Analyze Code
		Package Artifact
		Publish Artifact
		Provision Test Environment
		Deploy Artifact to Test
		Perform Test
		Validate Infrastructure Compliance
		Validate Exit Criteria
		Perform Dual Control
		Provision Production Environment
		Deploy Artifact to Production
		Notify Actors
	Design Strategies
		Context Diagram
		Branching Strategy
			Trunk-Based Workflow
			Feature Branch Workflow
			Gitflow
		Build Strategy
			Vertical Scaling
			Full Builds vs. Incremental Builds
			Parallel Builds
			Pipeline Caching
			Build Targets
			Cross-Platform Builds
			Multiteam Build Strategy
		Test Strategy
			Automated vs. Manual Tests
			Functional vs. Nonfunctional Tests
			Parallel Execution vs. Sequential Execution
			Manual Tests Performed by Specialists
			Long Execution Time vs. Short Execution Time
		Release Strategy
			Road Map–Based Release
			Timeboxed Release
			Regular Release
			Continuous Deployment
			Feature Management–Based Release
		Production Deployment Strategy
			Re-create Deployment
			Blue/Green Deployment
			Rolling Update and Canary Deployment
			A/B Test Strategy
		Other Design Considerations
			Delegation
				Application Architecture
				Orchestration
				Event-Based CI/CD
			Resource Constraints
			Commercial Off the Shelf
	Summary
Chapter 5: Pipeline Development
	Pipeline Specification
		Multibranch, Multistage Pipeline
		User Interface–Based Pipelines
		Scripted Pipelines
		Declarative Pipelines
		Constructs
			Triggers
			Execution Environment
			Connections
			Variables
			Conditions
			Caching
			Matrix
			Deployment Strategy
			Auto-cancel
			On Success/Failure
			Fail Fast
			Priority
			Test Shards
			Templates and Libraries
			Gates and Approvals
			Workflow
		Plugins and Marketplace Solutions
		Repositories: Everything as Code
	Third-Party Libraries and Containers
	Versioning and Tagging
	Environment Repository
	Secrets Management
		Database Credentials
	Feature Management
	Development in the Value Streams
		Simplified Pipeline Development
		Extended Pipeline Development
		Advanced Pipeline Development
		Develop a Base Pipeline
		Pipeline Generation
		Pipeline of Pipelines (DevOps Assembly Line)
	Sustainable Pipeline Development
	Summary
Chapter 6: Testing Pipelines
	Testing Pipelines
	Testability of Pipelines
	Unit Tests
	Performance Tests
	Pipeline Compliance and Security Tests
	Acceptance Tests
	Summary
Chapter 7: Pipeline Implementation
	Pipeline Implementation
	Organizational Impact
		Team Discipline
	Integration Platform
	Target Environment Preparations
		Playbook
	Application Implementation
		Runbook
		Release Note
		Artifact Promotion
	Summary
Chapter 8: Operate and Monitor
	Manage the Integration Platform
	Operational Pipelines
	Monitor
		Systems Monitoring
		Platform Monitoring
		Business Monitoring
		Security Monitoring
	Share Information
		Events, Alerts, Incidents, and Notifications
	Summary
Chapter 9: Use Case
	Requirements Analysis
	Pipeline Design
		Branching and Release Strategy
		Release Version Generation
	Pipeline Development
		Code Repository
		Pipeline Creation
		Configure Variable Groups
		Configure Service Connections
	Test
		Integrity of Artifacts
		Performance and Acceptance Pipelines
	Implementation
		Configure the Azure DevOps Prod Environment and Dual Control
		Deploy the Application to Production
		Quality Gate
	Summary
References
Index