The CI pipeline provides processes, practices, and tooling to help with the automated building and testing of every code commit in the source code repository. This includes automated security and compliance testing and logging.

Test processes, practices, and tooling for automated unit, functional, security, and compliance testing, logging results, and gaining approval to promote artifacts to the next stage in the flow.

The artifact repository consists of services and activities that are necessary to achieve the desired end state in terms of maintaining version, promotion, governance, and policy controls that are related deliverable artifacts. Generally stated, such artifacts are those that are converted from sources into binary packages, though other transformations may exist.

We develop and update software continuously so that the software can be released to production on-demand via CD.

The configuration consists of services and activities that are necessary to achieve the desired end state in terms of automating idempotent and expedient deployment of applications to static and on-demand hybrid cloud infrastructures. The design and implementation will be consistent with predefined SDLC process, including proper source artifact management (for example, Puppet modules, Chef cookbooks, deployment blueprints, and so on).

The control stack consists of services that are necessary to achieve the desired end state in terms of managing the tool chains that are recommended to operate the applications that are deployed by this infrastructure. This will also incorporate the SDLC processes, tools, integrations, and actions that are needed to maintain defined service-level agreements for a specific customer.

The feedback stack allows you to get automated feedback such as alerts, audit reports, test reports, and deployment process reports delivered when required.