Description
Continuous Deployment is an extension of continuous integration, and it is focused on minimizing the time between product development and that product being used by end users. Continuous deployment is the process that takes validated features from continuous integration and deploys them into the production environment where they are tested and prepared for release. The goal is to deliver incremental and valuable solutions to the end users as frequently as possible. To enable continuous deployment, the team typically relies on automation tools.
Typical Roles
Scrum Team
Product Owner
Scrum Master
Stakeholder
Desired Behaviors
- 1.
Maintain development and testing environments to match the production environment as closely as possible.
- 2.
Build a staging environment that replicates the production environment.
- 3.
Deploy validated code to the staging environment after each iteration.
- 4.
Automate the testing of the features and system functionality.
- 5.
Deploy the infrastructure and supporting code structure to automate deployment.