Summary
This chapter presented a foundational understanding of what a delivery requires, what a deployment is, and how the industry arrived at the state it currently operates in.
A common misunderstanding in the industry is that if the company is using a continuous integration and/or continuous delivery tool, or if their application is releasing at least once a week, they are operating in a continuous manner. This chapter laid out that a continuous process is defined as one that executes at least once a day, preferably more.
In the next chapter, the DevOps team will explore common industry trends and tools related to software delivery and deployment, as well as how to test their automation process.