Chapter 9

CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

Applying DevOps principles at scale for a business that requires deploying code across multiple servers has unique challenges that are best addressed through Continuous Delivery. Jez Humble and David Farley developed this approach and documented it in detail in their book Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation. The details for your engineers are best found there. We will provide a brief summary for executives here because CD is so important to transforming development processes for these businesses. It will also include things we learned while transforming a large organization ...

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