Key Steps in the Continuous Delivery Agile
- Code Development: While implementing the continuous delivery process in Agile for software development, the developers work on small and manageable pieces of functionality like user stories and write software code to add these features.
- Continuous Integration: Continuous integration occurs before the continuous delivery, when developers integrate their code changes to a version control repository like GIT.
- Artifact Generation: When successful integration and testing are done, the continuous integration process generates the artifacts such as compiled binaries or deployable packages for deployment to the server.
- Deployment Automation: Once the artifacts are generated the automated deployment takes these and deploys to the target server environment across different stages.
- Release to Production: In the continuous delivery process, once the automated tests in staging environment pass for the changes completed, the software changes are released to the production environment using different deployment methods to avoid any downtime.
- Monitoring and Feedback: After deployment is completed in production for particular release, continuous monitoring is done to gather any issue logs and other metrics to gather feedback on the performance and behavior of the application.
- Continuous Improvement: The continuous delivery in agile emphasizes continuous improvement and delivering value to customers continuously and in a more effective way.
What is Continuous Delivery (CD) in Agile?
Software delivery and deployment have evolved over the years from manual processes to automated processes. During the days of the manual delivery process, once the deployment to the production server is ready, a major update is done during the night or when no users are accessing the server and there would be long server downtime but using the agile continuous delivery method, small iterations of changes are added seamlessly with the automated delivery process. In this article, let us discuss the continuous delivery process in Agile.