Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation

by David Farley

The following details each step in the happy path of a release candidate that makes it successfully into production. The numbers refer to the enumerated steps shown in Figure 7.2. 1. Somebody on your delivery team commits a change. 2. Your continuous integration server runs the commit stage. 3. On successful completion, the binary as well as any reports and metadata are saved to the artifact repository. 4. Your CI server then retrieves the binaries created by the commit stage and deploys to a production-like test environment. 5. Your continuous integration server then runs the acceptance tests, reusing the binaries created by the commit stage. 6. On successful completion, the release candidate is marked as having passed the acceptance tests. 7. Testers can obtain a list of all builds that have passed the acceptance tests, and can press a button to run the automated process to deploy them into a manual testing environment. 8. Testers perform manual testing. 9. On successful conclusion of manual testing, testers update the status of the release candidate to indicate it has passed manual testing. 10. Your CI server retrieves the latest candidate that has passed acceptance testing, or manual testing depending on the pipeline configuration, from the artifact repository and deploys the application to the production test environment. 11. The capacity tests are run against the release candidate. 12. If successful, the status of the candidate is updated to “capacity-tested.” 13. Th...

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