Helen Beal

Learn CI/CD design patterns directly from industry leaders in this easy-to-follow guide, offering immediately applicable solutions for sustainable CI/CD adoption Key Features Simplify CI/CD adoption with the help of practical examples, case studies, and best practices Deploy market-ready solutions by implementing key components like pipelines, infrastructure, and release capabilities Explore advanced design patterns, including integration with machine learning and generative AI Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionThe fast-changing world of software development demands robust CI/CD solutions that go beyond traditional methods to address the complexities of modern pipelines. This practical guide presents proven design patterns to streamline your CI/CD processes, tackling pain points often overlooked by other resources. This book introduces continuous delivery design patterns to help practitioners and engineering teams design, adopt, and implement CI/CD. Drawing from decades of combined industry experience, the expert author team—including DevOps and cloud leader Garima Bajpai, industry expert Michel Schildmeijer, CI/CD framework creator Pawel Piwosz, and open source advocate Muktesh Mishra—provides invaluable insights from leading voices in the industry. The book lays a solid foundation by starting with the importance of CI/CD design patterns, components, and principles. You’ll learn strategies for scaling CI/CD with a focus on performance, security, measurements, and pipeline auditability, along with infrastructure and release automation. The book also covers advanced design patterns that integrate machine learning, generative AI, and near real-time CI/CD processes. By the end of this book, you’ll have a deep understanding of continuous delivery design patterns, a solid foundation for audits and controls, and be able to mitigate risks associated with the rapid integration of modern technology into the SDLC. What you will learn Use and manage CI/CD patterns effectively to design and implement CI/CD Understand types of CI/CD design patterns and components Discover relationships and interactions between tools within CI/CD Implement well-tested development/design paradigms Explore anti-patterns for CI/CD design pattern deployments Master the taxonomy of assessment and audits for CI/CD design patterns Get to grips with automation techniques for seamless CI/CD workflows Gain insights into scaling CI/CD processes for large projects Who this book is forThis design patterns book is for senior software developers, software architects, SRE architects, DevOps architects, cloud architects and platform engineering teams looking to speed up the development process by adopting well-tested, proven development/design paradigms for continuous delivery and its adoption. You are expected to have a basic understanding of CI/CD concepts and be familiar with the cloud ecosystem, DevOps principles, and CI/CD pipelines.

Unlock the power of DevOps release management to elevate your software development with early quality checks, testing, automation, and QA integration, reshaping your software delivery life cycle for excellence Key Features Understand the SDLC and the most popular release management models Learn what makes DevOps unique and how CI/CD pipelines enforce good DevOps release management Drive a culture-driven release management initiative in your organization that breaks down silos Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionAt the core of software development lies the imperative of swiftly and reliably releasing new features and updates, emphasizing the vital role of release management in the DevOps methodology. Discover how software development teams can elevate their processes by incorporating quality checks and shifting left, moving testing, automation, and QA procedures much earlier into the SDLC. However, release management is still tasked with application monitoring, overseeing infrastructure components, and managing change orders and schedules. This book offers insights into the essence of DevOps Release Management, illuminating its nuances and providing basic strategies for its implementation. You’ll explore how CI/CD pipelines enforce good DevOps release management and master techniques to optimize them. You’ll also learn how to foster a culture of cross-functional product development that minimizes waste and maximizes value to the customer. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained a comprehensive understanding of DevOps release management, its benefits, and practical implementation strategies. Equipped with this knowledge, you’ll be able to assess your own development processes and identify areas for improvement, ultimately leading to increased efficiency, collaboration, and value creation. What you will learn Discover the significance and anatomy of the SDLC Understand the history of release management and how various models work Grasp DevOps release management and basic strategies to implement it Construct optimized CI/CD pipelines capable of early issue detection Implement the shift-left approach to enhance value delivery to customers at record speed Foster a culture of cross-functional collaboration in your team Make DevOps release management pragmatic and accessible Overcome common pitfalls in DevOps release management Who this book is forThis book is a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to DevOps release management, but it's also valuable for DevOps engineers and release managers looking to enhance their skills and knowledge. If you’re looking to adopt key practices to shift left, this book will enable you to build high-quality products in record time.

In the vein of the bestselling The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, Investments Unlimited radically rethinks how organizations can handle the audit, compliance, and security of their software systems—even in highly regulated industries. By introducing concepts, tools, and ideas to reimagine governance, Investments Unlimited catalyzes a more humane way to enable high-velocity software delivery that is inherently more secure. Investments Unlimited, Inc. has accomplished what many other firms in their industry have failed to do: they have successfully navigated the transition from legacy ways of working to the digital frontier. With the help of DevOps practices, Investments Unlimited delivers value to its customers with speed and agility. But now, all that work is about to fall apart. Sure, DevOps helped the company adapt, but it also failed them. While features moved through the organization swiftly, their governance process became inundated with friction, frustration, and failure. And now, their inability to deliver what they promise has led regulators to slap them with an MRIA (matter requiring immediate attention), the final warning before cease-and-desist letters and fire sales. With the future of Investments Unlimited on the line, a cross-functional team of executives and engineers has just months to develop a modern governance process that satisfies regulators but doesn't slow down the company's ability to compete in the market. It is up to this ragtag team to navigate trials, tribulations, site failures, and supply chain attacks, all on their path to save the company from disaster.

A practical guide to implementing Value Stream Management to guide your strategic investments in DevOps capabilities and deliver customer-centric value quickly and economicallyKey FeaturesAddress DevOps implementation issues, including culture, toolchain costs, improving work and information flows, and product team alignmentImplement proven VSM methodology to improve IT value stream flowsLeverage VSM platforms to view, analyze, and improve end-to-end value deliveryBook DescriptionValue Stream Management (VSM) opens the door to maximizing your DevOps pipeline investments by improving flows and eliminating waste. VSM and DevOps together deliver value stream improvements across enterprises for a competitive advantage in the digital world. Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management provides a comprehensive review and analysis of industry-proven VSM methods and tools to integrate, streamline, and orchestrate activities within a DevOps-oriented value stream. You'll start with an introduction to the concepts of delivering value and understand how VSM methods and tools support improved value delivery from a Lean production perspective. The book covers the complexities of implementing modern CI/CD and DevOps pipelines and then guides you through an eight-step VSM methodology with the help of a use case showing an Agile team's efforts to install a CI/CD pipeline. Free from marketing hype or vendor bias, this book presents the current VSM tool vendors and customer use cases that showcase their products' strengths. As you advance through the book, you'll learn four approaches to implementing a DevOps pipeline and get guidance on choosing the best fit. By the end of this VSM book, you'll be ready to develop and execute a plan to streamline your software delivery pipelines and improve your organization's value stream delivery. What you will learnIntegrate Agile, systems thinking, and lean development to deliver customer-centric valueFind out how to choose the most appropriate value stream for your initial and follow-on VSM projectsEstablish better flows with integrated, automated, and orchestrated DevOps and CI/CD pipelinesApply a proven eight-step VSM methodology to drive lean IT value stream improvementsDiscover the key strengths of modern VSM tools and their customer use case scenariosUnderstand how VSM drives DevOps pipeline improvements and value delivery transformations across enterprisesWho this book is forThis book will help corporate executives, managers, IT team members, and other stakeholders involved in digital business transformations to improve the flow of customer value through their IT-based value streams. It will provide you with the practical guidance you need while adopting Lean-Agile, Value Stream Management, and DevOps capabilities on an enterprise scale to enable business agility. A basic understanding of how CI/CD and DevOps pipelines improve software delivery capabilities via integrated and automated toolchains will help you to make the most of the book.