Summary
Congratulations! You (hopefully) passed the quiz, and you saw the struggles teams can experience through the case studies we presented.
We hope that this book has helped you to better understand the bigger picture of CI/CD. In modern organizations, we should stop thinking about CI/CD as a simple pipeline, but as a vital and crucial element of the delivery system.
If we treat the organization as a body, CI/CD should be treated as the bloodstream, as its function is to deliver blood (in our case, code) to all parts of the body (environments). This means that we need to keep the CI/CD in a healthy state and do frequent check-ups.
This book gave you all diagnostic tools and proper treatments to apply (keeping with the biological metaphor) in order to make sure your approach to CI/CD is not only valid for today but also does not create risks for the future. You learned how to apply the different design patterns, how to scale the system, and also how to measure adoption...