Part 4. CD design

In this final part, we’ll examine concepts that apply to continuous delivery as a whole.

Chapter 11 looks back at the continuous delivery elements that have been taught in the previous chapters, and looks at how to effectively introduce those elements to a greenfield project and to a legacy project.

Chapter 12 focuses the spotlight on the workhorse often at the heart of any continuous delivery automation: the shell script. You’ll see how to apply the same best practices we use on the rest of our code on the scripts that we rely on to deliver our software safely and correctly.

Chapter 13 looks at the overall structure of the automated pipelines we need to create to support continuous delivery. The pipelines you’ll see model the features that you need from continuous delivery automation systems to ensure your pipelines are effective.