It does not matter how good our design or architecture is, at the end of the day what matters is whether our code is ready for production. But the question is, how do we make sure that our code is always production ready. As described by Jez Humble [Co-author of Continuous Delivery book] Continuous Delivery [CD] is fast, automated feedback for production readiness of our code when any change that happens to the code, Database, configurations or the infrastructure.

During this workshop, we will give you an overview of Continuous Integration[CI] and Continuous Delivery[CD] and also talk about the key practices of CD such as:

• Mainline Development
• Feature Toggles
• Build Automation
• Deployment Automation

As this will be a “hands-on” session, we will be using Jenkins as an example tool. We will walk you through setting up CD using Jenkins and its Build Pipeline Plugin. We will also briefly touch upon open source tools that help with deployment automation such as Chef/Puppet, Capistrano etc.