A deployment pipeline automates the movement of software changes through integration, testing, delivery, and deployment. In DevOps workflows, AI agents can monitor systems, suggest fixes for failing tests, roll back deployments, and triage performance issues. Human oversight remains important, especially in production. section 8.6
Deployment pipeline
CI/CD is the practice of automating continuous integration, testing, delivery, and deployment of software changes.
How Introduction to Generative AI, Second Edition covers it
- How deep it goes
- Describes agent-assisted monitoring, test-failure fixes, deployment rollback, and performance triage without implementation details.
- Examples
- Illustrates agents suggesting fixes for failing tests, rolling back deployments, and triaging performance issues.
- How it connects
- Connects continuous integration and delivery with DevOps, automated testing, deployment rollback, and human oversight.
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Effective Platform EngineeringAn automated deployment pipeline is a tool-driven sequence that builds, validates, and deploys software with minimal manual intervention.
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Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, Second EditionA CI/CD pipeline is an automated sequence that builds, tests, packages, and delivers software through continuous integration and continuous delivery or deployment.
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Automating API DeliveryContinuous integration and continuous delivery is a software delivery practice that automates frequent integration, testing, packaging, and deployment.
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Terraform in Depth: Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and OpenTofuA CI/CD pipeline is an automated workflow that builds, tests, and delivers software through continuous integration and continuous delivery or deployment.
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Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices: With examples in Python and TerraformA delivery pipeline is an automated sequence of activities that validates, packages, and delivers software or infrastructure changes.
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Web Components in ActionA build step is an automated processing stage that transforms or prepares source code and assets for development or production.
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Shipping Go: Develop, deliver, discuss, design, and go againA deployment pipeline is an automated sequence of steps that builds, verifies, and delivers software to a deployment environment.
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Google Anthos in ActionA CI/CD pipeline is an automated workflow that moves software changes through integration, validation, and delivery stages from source to production.
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Kubernetes for DevelopersA deployment pipeline is an automated sequence of validation and delivery steps that promotes software or configuration changes to a deployment environment.
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100 SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid ThemA CI/CD pipeline is an automated workflow that integrates, tests, and delivers software changes through continuous integration and continuous delivery or deployment.
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Secure APIsContinuous integration and delivery is an automated practice for frequently integrating code changes and validating or releasing them through a delivery pipeline.
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Build AI-Enhanced Web AppsAn automated software delivery workflow that integrates code changes and continuously builds, tests, and deploys them.
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Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structureA deployment pipeline is an automated sequence of stages that builds, tests, validates, and deploys software.
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Think Like a Software Engineering ManagerContinuous delivery is a software delivery practice in which changes are kept in a releasable state and delivered frequently through an automated, repeatable process.
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Road to KubernetesCI/CD is the practice of continuously integrating code changes and continuously delivering or deploying software through automated pipelines.
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Think Like a CTOAn automated sequence of software integration, compilation, testing, packaging, and deployment steps.
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Building Distributed Applications that WorkA software delivery pipeline is an automated sequence of steps for building, testing, or deploying software.
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gRPC Microservices in GoA CI/CD pipeline is an automated software-delivery workflow that integrates, tests, and prepares or deploys changes continuously.
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Authorization in ActionA CI/CD pipeline is an automated workflow that builds, tests, and delivers software or configuration changes through continuous integration and continuous delivery.
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Kafka for ArchitectsA continuous integration/continuous deployment pipeline is an automated workflow that validates, builds, tests, and delivers software or infrastructure changes.
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Machine Learning Platform EngineeringContinuous integration is a software-development practice that automatically builds and verifies changes as they are integrated into a shared codebase.
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Delivering Machine Learning Projects: From design to deploymentCI/CD is the practice of automating continuous integration, testing, and delivery or deployment of software changes.
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Learn Go with Pocket-Sized ProjectsContinuous integration is a software development practice in which changes are automatically built and tested when integrated into a shared codebase.
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Microsoft Azure in ActionCI/CD is the practice of automatically integrating, testing, and delivering software changes through a repeatable pipeline.
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Machine Learning System DesignA set of continuous integration and continuous delivery or deployment practices that automate software integration, testing, and release.
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Build a Frontend Web Framework (From Scratch)The process of transforming application source code and assets into files prepared for delivery to users.
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Build Python Web Apps with StreamlitContinuous integration is the practice of automatically validating code changes as they are integrated into a shared codebase.
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Related concepts
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- integration testuses · An integration test evaluates whether multiple software components, or a component and an external dependency, interact and behave correctly together.
- container imageproduces · A container image is a packaged filesystem and configuration artifact from which a container can be created and run.
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