Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
- By Jez Humble, David Farley
- Published Jul 27, 2010 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler) series.
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 7 X 9-1/8
- Pages: 512
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-60191-2
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-60191-9
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Product Author Bios
Matthew "Jez" Humble has extensive IT experience as a developer, sysadmin, consultant and manager, working with multiple platforms and technologies. Since 2004, he has worked for ThoughtWorks in Beijing, Bangalore and London; he is now product manager for Cruise, the firm's commercial continuous integration server. Dave Farley works for TradeFair, helping to build the world's highest performance financial exchange. He has spent 30 years writing software ranging from firmware and device drivers to commercial applications and games. He was Technical Principal on some of ThoughtWorks' biggest, most challenging projects, and has extensive experience leading the development of complex software.
Winner of the 2011 Jolt Excellence Award!
Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process.
This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable
rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through
automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between
developers, testers, and operations, delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours—
sometimes even minutes–no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base.
Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the foundations of a rapid, reliable, low-risk
delivery process. Next, they introduce the “deployment pipeline,” an automated process for
managing all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the “ecosystem” needed to
support continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance.
The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques, including automated infrastructure management
and data migration, and the use of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, identify best
practices, and demonstrate how to mitigate risks. Coverage includes
• Automating all facets of building, integrating, testing, and deploying software
• Implementing deployment pipelines at team and organizational levels
• Improving collaboration between developers, testers, and operations
• Developing features incrementally on large and distributed teams
• Implementing an effective configuration management strategy
• Automating acceptance testing, from analysis to implementation
• Testing capacity and other non-functional requirements
• Implementing continuous deployment and zero-downtime releases
• Managing infrastructure, data, components and dependencies
• Navigating risk management, compliance, and auditing
Whether you’re a developer, systems administrator, tester, or manager, this book will help your
organization move from idea to release faster than ever—so you can deliver value to your business
rapidly and reliably.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Great nuggets lost in a repetitive bog, By
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This book is packed full of great ideas, but it suffers from painful redundancy. In response to another review, an author claims that it was intentional, so that one could skip around without reading from cover to cover. My response to that is that they should have had better editors. I have read many technical books designed for skipping around. None were as tediously repetitive as this one. Eventually, one has to expect that the reader is going to read more than one chapter and might even remember something from a previous chapter and do them the courtesy of not belaboring the main points each time. It's not even limited to once per chapter. The repetition frequently continues within each chapter, section by section.That said, there are some good gems inside. My favorite parts might be the many real-world stories of how things can go wrong or how applying some of the principles smoothed things out. The detail, diversity and verisimilitude of those anecdotes sets... Read more
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This is one of the most important software books published in years. From the beginning and throughout the book, the authors emphasize the importance in establishing one delivery team consisting of various experts throughout the software lifecycle - developers, DBAs, Systems/Operations, network specialists, testers and so on. The overarching pattern the authors describe is the Deployment Pipeline, which is basically a staged process consisting of all of the steps to go from bare/virtual metal to a working system whenever there is a change to source files. Of course, the only way this can be done is through copious amounts of automation. The other key point the authors make is that this automated delivery system - itself - is versioned with every change. Not just the custom source code, but also the operating system(s), tools, configuration and everything necessary to create a working software system - a crucial aspect of the Deployment Pipeline.To sum up key points from... Read more
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I found the book extremely repetitive, to the point that after the 4th chapter I started skimming through it, as there's no point in reading it all. I don't know if the idea is to repeat phrases until the reader buys into them, or what. I'm quite disappointed that Martin Fowler put his signature on this book. Maybe they're a big happy family at Thoughtworks ... and hey, they need to make money out of Go.I don't rate this book as just 1 star, as it has some good ideas, but it could have been written in 150 pages (max) rather than 450. Some of the concepts that are repeated until boredom are: - Don't build the binaries at each stage of the deployment pipeline, create them once an reuse them. - The capacity testing environment should be as similar as possible to the production environment. - Script everything! - Don't let builds that fail unit or acceptance test into production - Put all the configuration in version control (network, firewall, OS,... Read more |
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Table of Contents
Foreword by Martin Fowler
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Part I Foundations
1 The Problem of Delivering Software
2 Configuration Management
3 Continuous Integration
4 Implementing a Testing Strategy
Part II The Deployment Pipeline
5 Anatomy of the Deployment Pipeline
6 Build and deployment scripting
7 Commit Testing Stage
8 Automated Acceptance Testing
9 Testing Non-Functional Requirements
10 Deploying and Releasing Applications
Part III The Delivery Ecosystem
11 Managing infrastructure and environments
12 Managing Data
13 Managing components and dependencies
14 Advanced version control
15 Managing Continuous Delivery
Bibliography
Index
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