11 Starter packs: From zero to CD

 

In this chapter

  • identifying the basic elements of an effective CD pipeline
  • finding and fixing the missing elements in existing CD pipelines
  • setting up effective CD pipelines for new projects from day one
  • adding useful CD automation to legacy projects without needing to solve everything at once

Knowing where to get started with continuous delivery (CD) can be hard, especially when you’re starting from having no automation at all, when you’re making something brand-new, or when you have a pile of legacy code already built up. This chapter will help you avoid getting overwhelmed by showing you where to start and how to get the most value quickly from your CD pipelines—whether you’re starting from scratch or you have 20 years of legacy code to deal with.

Starter packs: Overview

In this chapter, we’ll take a look at how you can improve CD for your project, regardless of where you’re starting from. The chapter is divided into three sections:

Recap: Universal CD pipeline tasks

Prototypical release pipeline

Prototypical CI pipeline

Both pipelines with triggering

Greenfield: Getting to CD

Gulpy

Greenfield: Zero to CD

First step: Does it build?

Picking a CD system

Setting up the initial automation

State of the code: Linting

State of the code: Unit tests