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Embracing DevOps Release Management

You're reading from   Embracing DevOps Release Management Strategies and tools to accelerate continuous delivery and ensure quality software deployment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835461853
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joel Kruger Joel Kruger
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Preface 1. Part 1: Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle and Its Design
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: A Brief Introduction to Release Management 4. Chapter 3: What Are the Various SDLC Release Management Models? 5. Part 2: The Advantages of DevOps Release Management
6. Chapter 4: What Problems Does DevOps Release Management Try to Solve? 7. Chapter 5: Understanding What Makes DevOps Release Management Unique 8. Chapter 6: Understanding the Basics of CI/CD 9. Chapter 7: A Practical Pipeline for Technical Release Managers 10. Chapter 8: How CI/CD Pipelines Enforce Good DevOps Release Management 11. Part 3: Develop a Culture of DevOps in Your Organization’s Release Management Strategy
12. Chapter 9: Embracing DevOps Culture in Your Release Management Strategy 13. Chapter 10: What Does Receiving Support from Leadership and Stakeholders Look Like? 14. Chapter 11: Overcoming Common Pitfalls in DevOps Release Management 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

The spiral model

In 1986, Barry W. Boehm created the spiral release management model as a method for organizing the SDLC. It assumes that building an app is a cycle that may be repeated indefinitely until the desired result is achieved. By continuously monitoring risks and inspecting the intermediate product, the spiral model significantly reduces the likelihood of failure in large software projects.

Issues that arise during the course of the development process have a variety of potential impacts on the finished product. If such an outcome occurs, you should prepare for an increase in prices, an increase in work, and a delay in the delivery date. These are all elements that have the potential to quickly become a threat to the sustainability of your company. The iterative and gradual approach that the spiral model takes, in addition to the regular risk assessment that can take the form of prototype drafts, studies, or simulations, is designed to either eliminate the possibility...

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