Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) 1st Edition by Jez Humble (PDF)

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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 enablerapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Throughautomation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration betweendevelopers, 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-riskdelivery process. Next, they introduce the “deployment pipeline,” an automated process formanaging all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the “ecosystem” needed tosupport continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance. The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques, including automated infrastructure managementand data migration, and the use of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, identify bestpractices, 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 yourorganization move from idea to release faster than ever―so you can deliver value to your businessrapidly and reliably.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: Review “If you need to deploy software more frequently, this book is for you. Applying it will help you reduce risk, eliminate tedious work, and increase confidence. I’ll be using the principles and practices here on all my current projects.”–Kent Beck, Three Rivers Institute “Whether or not your software development team already understands that continuous integration is every bit as necessary as source code control, this is required reading. This book is unique in tying the whole development and delivery process together, providing a philosophy and principles, not just techniques and tools. The authors make topics from test automation to automated deployment accessible to a wide audience. Everyone on a development team, including programmers, testers, system administrators, DBAs, and managers, needs to read this book.”–Lisa Crispin, co-author of Agile Testing “For many organizations Continuous Delivery isn’t just a deployment methodology, it’s critical to doing business. This book shows you how to make Continuous Delivery an effective reality in your environment.”–James Turnbull, author of Pulling Strings with Puppet “A clear, precise, well-written book that gives readers an idea of what to expect for the release process. The authors give a step-by-step account of expectations and hurdles for software deployment. This book is a necessity for any software engineer’s library.”–Leyna Cotran, Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine “Humble and Farley illustrates what makes fast-growing web applications successful. Continuous deployment and delivery has gone from controversial to commonplace and this book covers it excellently. It’s truly the intersection of development and operations on many levels, and these guys nailed it.”–John Allspaw, VP Technical Operations, Etsy.com and author of The Art of Capacity Planning and Web Operations“If you are in the business of building and delivering a software-based service, you would be well served to internalize the concepts that are so clearly explained in Continuous Delivery. But going beyond just the concepts, Humble and Farley provide an excellent playbook for rapidly and reliably delivering change.”–Damon Edwards, President of DTO Solutions and co-editor of dev2ops.org “I believe that anyone who deals with software releases would be able to pick up this book, go to any chapter and quickly get valuable information; or read the book from cover to cover and be able to streamline their build and deploy process in a way that makes sense for their organization. In my opinion, this is an essential handbook for building, deploying, testing, and releasing software.”–Sarah Edrie, Director of Quality Engineering, Harvard Business School “Continuous Delivery is the logical next step after Continuous Integration for any modern software team. This book takes the admittedly ambitous goal of constantly delivering valuable software to customers, and makes it achievable through a set of clear, effective principles and practices.”–Rob Sanh From the Back Cover 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 enablerapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Throughautomation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration betweendevelopers, 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-riskdelivery process. Next, they introduce the “deployment pipeline,” an automated process formanaging all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the “ecosystem” needed tosupport continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance. The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques, including automated infrastructure managementand data migration, and the use of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, identify bestpractices, 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 yourorganization move from idea to release faster than ever―so you can deliver value to your businessrapidly and reliably. About the Author Dave Farley has been having fun with computers for nearly 30 years. Over that period he has worked on most types of software, from firmware, through tinkering with operating systems and device drivers, to writing games, and commercial applications of all shapes and sizes. He started working in large scale distributed systems about 20 years ago, doing research into the development of loose-coupled, message-based systems – a forerunner of SOA. He has a wide range of experience leading the development of complex software in teams, both large and small, in the UK and USA. Dave was an early adopter of agile development techniques, employing iterative development, continuous integration and significant levels of automated testing on commercial projects from the early 1990s. He honed his approach to agile development in his four and a half year stint at ThoughtWorks where he was a technical principal working on some of their biggest and most challenging projects. Dave is currently working for the London Multi-Asset Exchange (LMAX), an organization that is building one of the highest performance financial exchanges in the world, where they rely upon all of the major techniques described in this book. Jez Humble has been fascinated by computers and electronics since getting his first ZX Spectrum aged 11, and spent several years hacking on Acorn machines in 6502 and ARM assembler and BASIC until he was old enough to get a proper job. He got into IT in 2000, just in time for the dot com bust. Since then he has worked as a developer, system administrator, trainer, consultant, manager, and speaker. He has worked with a variety of platforms and technologies, consulting for non-profits, telecoms, financial services and on-line retail companies. Since 2004 he has worked for ThoughtWorks and ThoughtWorks Studios in Beijing, Bangalore, London and San Francisco. He holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University and an MMus in Ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is presently living in San Francisco with his wife and daughter. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This book may not make you an expert but it will defiantly give you a solid foundation on CI/CD processes. I wasted so much time and effort reading other devops books only to get frustrated, because none of them explained the process end to end like this book does. And yes that includes books you would see in top 10 lists.You will also have to keep in mind that this book is 11+ years old which makes it a classic in the world of I.T, so it covers timeless processes and not the latest and greatest trendy tools. One place it did miss a beat was remote teamwork but that is forgivable, not realizing how much COVID and the cloud would change things.

⭐When I started reading this book, the ideas it presented were much like the policies and procedures we already employ. Further reading revealed some ideas we really need to explore and hopefully execute. My experience has been with teams spending too much time thinking about how to solve issues, and then rolling out home grown solutions. I’ve worked with some REALLY SMART people, who can solve problems and roll out good solutions in a fairly efficient manner. I think we could save significant time by stealing the ideas from this book.Perhaps the most valuable thing this book gives me is validation for processes I’ve been begging to get done where I work. That alone saves time in the decision making process.Love it!

⭐This book is more than CI/CD, it is for *software professionals.* It walks through a lot of the software enterprise concepts that are overlooked by developers. While Essential Scrum discusses the business side of things, this book fills in the gap between the business and development team.

⭐Reading through this can be like a fire hose of ideas to improve your work flows.But to be successful, I’ve found with reading a chapter, find just one thing in the chapter you can do to change your job for the better. Learn that one thing and do that one change until it becomes “the way” you do things.Trying to change five things at once is probably too much to take on. But making one positive change at a time is an easily obtainable goal. Then go back and review the chapter or different chapter and pick another change to implement. Then rinse and repeat.

⭐Excellent book that describes and explains Continuous Integration/Delivery in clear and concise terminology with real-world examples.The authors show that they have operated at the coal face, so to speak, and always provide both sides to their arguments/propositions.It’s clear that operating in cross-functional teams and deploying in an iterative, automated manner is the most efficient, safest and secure manner in deploying applications. This is contrary to how many folk have previously talked about securely deploying software 🙂

⭐Of course, there are few other books in the market that touch on Continuous Delivery. However, here in this book the authors Jez Humble and David Farley have provided detailed and in-depth treatment of this subject with real examples that are relevant. I have been in software development and delivery business for many years, and I do not hesitate to say that I have experienced all of the anti-patterns described in “some common release antipatterns” not once but several times. If I have to choose the parts of this book, my favorites are Chapters 2. Configuration Management, 3. Continuous Integration, 8. Automated Acceptance Testing, 10. Deploying and Releasing Applications, and 15. Managing Continuous Delivery. Believe me, I have read and reread these chapters. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to be successful using the Continuous Delivery practice in an Agile environment. Even if someone is already working in an Agile environment and practicing Continuous Delivery, I am sure there are best practices that they can pick up from this book and use right away.

⭐A well written book with good ideas for improving a build and deployment process. The authors make an excellent case for reducing software project risks by working towards the goal of continuous delivery. The vision of a completely automated system from code check in to enterprise deployment is compelling. They also include references to specific tools and techniques that are useful to this creating a complete deployment pipeline. The chapters of the book are fairly independent allowing you to read the areas that are most important to you. Achieving the goal outlined in this book will not be easy or quickly done in most environments, but even getting most of the way down the path towards a fully automated continuous delivery system will yield great benefits.

⭐great book for every body that wants to understand CI and CD. Good for managers, Project managers; product managers and also for any technical role. I loved the real life samples and the way they describes how you can go from a zero to a 4 level of CI in your organization. I think this is a must to learn if you want to start with CI no matter what your role is in the project.

⭐I can’t put enough stress on how valuable this book is! Whether you are a developer, operations or manager, you will find essential knowledge to improve your work an expand your comfortable zone. I personally found some ever-missing pieces of the puzzle that baffled me on past projects and now I can easily give competent answers to what went wrong and how we could have improved. The vast experience of the authors, seen as advices and examples throughout the book, is valuable lesson both for working on existing project or realizing a start-up idea! One of the must-read books!

⭐There are many books about agile, lean, testing, continuous integration etc. But this book achieves something at the next level. It ties all these separate, vital parts together in a philosophy that you can explain to your CTO. What’s more, it’s also sufficiently detailed to be a useful handbook to a practitioner on a team. I’ve bought this book multiple times, sometimes to replace a copy I’ve lost but also to give to colleagues who’ve been looking for a guide towards better, safer and more pleasant software delivery.

⭐All you need to know to start into your continuous delivery journey. When I first read this book, it contained a lot of alien content for me and it helped me overcome some of the wrong biases the previous 15 years in technology had created for me. I now use this book to enrich the conversation I have with my team members. I hired this book for multiple needs and they were all satisfied, thank you!

⭐This is perfect book for a Great indepth introduction for your Devopsing.Author has practical experience and they talk you through the approaches for CI and real life experiences.Brilliant book, I recommend.

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