Tuesday 8 April 2014

Continous Integration and Continous Delivery - Pitfall pattern when building and deploying software for the enterprise

Part 8: A conclusion

I can conclude 2 important points:

  • You have to be very much aware of what you are doing with your CI/CD setup and treat it as if it was a piece of the most important software in your business using all your favourite software principles when building/configuring your CI/CD pipelines.
    • This will enable you to focus more on business software.
    • It will empower all the developers and ops guys
    • And it will help you avoid having hired a guy name Jack, which most likely will be a very stressed out guy within a couple of years.
  • Finally you have to be very critical when choosing tools. There are many gold-plated solutions which will be your own downfall, like TeamCity/CruiseControl/etc.
Hang in there, in the future it will be al lot easier and remember today there are already an abundance of cloud services out there that will help set you free :).


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