The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

by Gene Kim

To better enable fast flow, we want a code promotion process that can be performed by either Development or Operations, ideally without any manual steps or handoffs. This affects the following steps: Build: Our deployment pipeline must create packages from version control that can be deployed to any environment, including production. Test: Anyone should be able to run any or all of our automated test suite on their workstation or on our test systems. Deploy: Anybody should be able to deploy these packages to any environment where they have access, executed by running scripts that are also checked in to version control. These are the practices that enable deployments to be performed successfully, regardless of who is performing the deployment.