In the first chapter, when we were explaining why you may be considering implementing the microservice architecture in your applications, we mentioned the challenges that are being currently faced by application developers and architects.
One of the key tools that may enable us to deal with providing software in a way that enables us to meet those challenges is automation. As we covered in the preceding chapter, OpenShift enables us to automate infrastructure provisioning. However, we need more than that.
We will also like to automate the process of deploying software into production. Ideally, we will like to have tools that will enable us to release software immediately. OpenShift provides such a tool in the form of the build pipeline. Let's introduce the rationale behind this concept.
Let's start with CI.
