Chapter 11. Beyond CI – Continuous Delivery

We had a quick introduction to Continuous Delivery (CD) in Chapter 1, Introduction. This chapter aims to expand on the concept and explores how a CD setup can be achieved using TeamCity.

First, we begin by looking at what CD is and why it is beneficial. Then we look at how the deployment pipeline can be configured in TeamCity so as to achieve these benefits of CD.

What is Continuous Delivery?

CD can be defined as the processes and practices through which applications are made available to be deployed to production at any time.

Note

A key thing to note here is that the applications are made available for deployment to production but are not necessarily deployed. Having every build of your application deployed ...

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