Preface

P.1 Overview of Continuous Delivery and the Book

Continuous Delivery makes it possible to bring software much faster and with substantially higher reliability into production than before. The basis for these improvements is a Continuous Delivery pipeline that automates the software rollout to a large degree and thus represents a reproducible, low-risk process for rolling out new releases.

Where does the term Continuous Delivery originate from?

The Agile Manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org) defines as its most important objective:

“Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.”

Therefore, Continuous Delivery is a technique from the Agile field.

This book explains how such a ...

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