Efficiency in Development Workflows: Deployment Pipelines

Having a Deployment Pipeline in place is extremely helpful! Learn how to set it up and how to deploy to production servers with Zero Downtime Deployment in this article.
A deployment pipeline lays out the whole process that your code needs to go through from your repository to production. It breaks the build into several parts (e.g., build, test and deploy) and all the associated steps that need to be taken. By defining a pipeline it is always clear which step needs to happen next. Martin Fowler describes it really well in his blog post.
If you want to dig deeper into Deployment Pipelines I highly recommend Jez Humble and David Farley’s book: Continuous Delivery.

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