CI/CD Best Practices

Continuous deployment , alongside continuous integration and delivery, is an essential tool for maintaining sophisticated software products with minimal downtime and seamless customer experience.Let’s learn more about general Continuous Deployment Best Practices in this post

Follow the Checklist

Strict adherence to checklists in highly technical environments helps ensure a routine procedure is carried out with consistency and high levels of success, regardless of turnover or other human factors.

Have a Backup Stored in Case You Need to Roll Back

Things go wrong all the time, especially in the environment as loud with simultaneous multiplayer intrusions as software development. Using a software that has rollback functionality, or simply storing your most recent version before deployment, offers peace of mind.

Strive to Switch to Single Source Repository

In an ideal situation, you’d have all code and artefacts stored in a central repository. If your operational setup does not allow for all of the developers to commit code to a mainline just yet, the next best thing to do is to minimise branching and commit as often as possible to reduce potential frictions.

Cut Out Maximum Manual Processes from Deployment Stage

The very concept of Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment suggests maximum automation. Ensuring your tech stack enables maximum automation at the stages from build through release to testing is a complex yet possible mission.?

Under this scenario, build tools will be configured to take into account the particulars of the deployment infrastructure and its components. The build system architecture should be mindful of sequencing and scheduling of deployment commits inline with system specifics.

Make Security an Integral Part of the CI / CD processes

However great and self-deliverable a code may be, it can be a vehicle to all kinds of threats to its users as well. Even though malicious parties boast top-shelf tech skills and the most recent know-how of breakage and attacks, there are a few things you can do to minimise the security risks:

• Store agents in containers on secure networks
• Store sensitive data in encrypted storage
• Use VPN
• Use two-factor authentication

While the list of continuous deployment best practices is extensive and keeps re-inventing itself based on the industry’s round-the-clock evolution, our next post describes the best practices in specific deployment cases. Stay updated.

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