CD practice and its evolution
The maturity of a CD practice comes with time. Once the practice evolves, faster releases with fewer bugs and issues make it to production. The flexibility of on-demand, anytime deployment of new features not only increases the competitiveness of the product but also builds confidence in the development practice itself. More standardization and maturing tools and applications for CI/CD also enhance the CD services portfolio. Organizations are also looking at different ways to improve developer productivity by removing foundational capabilities with an as a service option. CD pipelines move down in the value chain with the maturity of the CD practice. The stages of CD practice maturity and related operating models are set out here:
- CD with on-premises: The first steps in building up a CD practice indeed start with understanding the benefits, which can range from just automating manual tasks to building up the basic infrastructure, applications,...
