Demystifying CI/CD
summary
Practical roadmap for CI/CD with concrete benchmarks and tools: use cloud CI like CircleCI or GitHub Actions instead of DIY Jenkins where possible, keep test environments identical to production, and start small with one team. Benchmarks from a 60 million build study show builds under 10 minutes, success rate >90% and mean time to recovery <1 hour for high performers. Examples and pitfalls include CruiseControl, Jenkins, Netlify/Vercel for deploys, Rainforest QA for testing, and the old locked-file failure mode of Visual Source Safe.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction to CI/CD
- 3:09What is DevOps?
- 7:22History of CI/CD
- 13:43From SourceSafe to Git
- 16:12Continuous Integration explained
- 18:59Continuous Deployment explained
- 21:03CI/CD principles and tools
- 25:57Benefits of CI/CD
- 27:43Implementing CI/CD in teams
- 30:52Measuring CI/CD success
- 32:15High-performing CI/CD benchmarks
- 32:37Rigorous testing culture
- 34:45Code reviews and pairing
- 35:27Automating deployments
- 36:31DevOps performance report
- 38:15When to automate (and when not to)
- 39:15Getting started with CI/CD
- 40:41Q&A session
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