{"id":52536,"date":"2017-12-04T16:09:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T10:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/?p=52536"},"modified":"2017-12-14T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T10:25:27","slug":"continuous-delivery-how-to-make-your-pipeline-robust-and-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/continuous-delivery-how-to-make-your-pipeline-robust-and-efficient\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuous Delivery – How to Make Your Pipeline Robust and Efficient?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frequent and shorter releases, faster feedback, less risky deployments and resilient systems – do they sound familiar? Well, modern technology companies are focusing and emphasizing on Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment to improve time to market and get an edge over the competitors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Continuous delivery is an extension to continuous integration<\/a>. Companies have started ensuring that the development, operations and testing teams work collaboratively as one delivery team. Apart from focusing on shortening the release cycles, the ultimate goal of a continuous delivery pipeline is to keep the build in a releasable state always. Changes to code should be frequently deployed however in larger projects the risk of deployment is huge and hence, it is advisable to divide the process into smaller versions. The simplest way to ensure limiting errors is by having one-click rollback at a place. More and more companies are leveraging DevOps automation<\/a> to release often and faster.<\/p>\n

\u201cContinuous delivery is software development discipline where you build software in such a way that the software can be release to production at any time\u201d – Martin Fowler<\/span><\/p>\n

According to one of the reports by Perforce<\/a>, below are the benefits of continuous delivery:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Benefits-of-CD\"

Source: www.perforce.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Companies like Netflix, New York Stock Exchange, Samsung or Salesforce.com <\/span>automate continuous delivery <\/span>to provide break free experience to customers and improve the build quality. However, many other companies that aspire to leverage DevOps are still figuring a way to fix bugs quickly, roll out features faster and ensure continuous improvement in the build. Continuous delivery can not only help them to achieve this but also prevent risky deployments and in long run make their infrastructure more resilient.<\/span><\/p>\n

More frequently, some companies resolve their doubts through DevOps consulting<\/a>, but some others still have the confusion about how to make their delivery pipeline robust? In this blog, we will uncover the ways to make your pipeline efficient and robust.<\/span><\/p>\n

(A.) Monitor the Build Quality in the pipeline<\/b><\/h2>\n

Quality of build <\/a>is extremely important in the entire continuous delivery pipeline and technology team should ensure that before a new feature is released to production, the build passes through a series of tests. The team ensures that most bugs get resolved before the code is pushed to mainline. Moreover, all the concerned build owners are informed about the location of the latest build by sharing a common repository with everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n