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Continuous Delivery is an emerging area of software development, which takes continuous integration one step further. Software teams practicing continuous delivery create build pipelines that enable them to integrate, test, and deploy their software products with high frequency.

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We want a GitHub workflow that syncs EF migrations across all branches and automates ClickOnce desktop app deployments. The key requirements of this question are highlighted in bold at the bottom. ...
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We want CI/CD to inject the production connection string into a .NET Framework app.config during deployment. In source control, we only want test/staging DB connection strings. Developers should ...
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I recently came upon the concept of GitOps. One idea that's central to GitOps is the use of static configurations (e.g. Git repositories are the source of truth for configurations). In my distributed ...
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In many configurations of CI/CD pipelines I encounter, things run somewhat like this: compilation and tests are run on a pull request after merging, the build is triggered on the main branch, which ...
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Introduction I am reading Building Microservices (second edition) by Sam Newman. In chapter 9 the author highlights 2 problems when desiging end-to-end testing for microservices: Which version of the ...
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Perhaps because I'm primarily a coder, I don't understand the benefit of CI/CD, or any related terms such as scrum, agile, etc. In my opinion, testing can be done locally on development computer; ...
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We have an issue of maintainability for our pipelines at the organization where I work, whereby making a change and ensuring the change is tested and bug-free for our customers (other developers in ...
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I personally put build stage in Dockerfile. (Using multi-stage feature in Dockerfile) But in my company, we have dev containers where all dependencies are installed and managed. So in our product's ...
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I work within a poly-repo that is worked on by multiple other teams, each in our own separate sections of this main repo. I am coming to make my first push to production and I am unsure about ...
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In Scrum we do a 2 week sprint and ship the features after the sprint. I have heard a lot of good things about TBD, but does it conflict with Scrum? Can anyone share your workflow if it is possible ...
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I have a small open source package and I'm trying to automate parts of the release life cycle. I am very confused about how to automate version bumps. Here's the relevant information about my version ...
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I am not sure if I have been using the term wrongly (and including it in my CV), so some inputs from the community will be appreciated. I am not a DevOps, but a noob machine learning engineer. So I ...
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My company* wants to move from using long-running feature branching (~up to a few weeks) to continuous integration with trunk-based development, and to break up our monolith into microservices. We'...
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Am exploring options of adopting feature flag based development to deliver builds faster instead of getting tangled in release branch management rabbit hole. As of now I am not able to find a good ...
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I'm a relatively new IT Ops guy in a software (web) development company. Recently I deployed a virtual machine on OpenStack, because some developer needs it, and then I installed their application (...
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Goal I'm working on libraries published as nuget packages and I would like the version of those packages to update automatically based on the changes I make. In other words, I would like something ...
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I'm currently working on a project which uses azure function apps, we also create a data access layers for each function app which are built as nuget packages and are then published to a private nuget ...
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(This question is inspired by the SO blog entry Fulfilling the promise of CI/CD and this old question of mine: Why is it wrong to comment out code and then gradually remove it to keep track of what I'...
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For our software development process we used to set up 3 environments : integration , QA and master. Recently it was decided to add a new staging environment that shall mirror the production ...
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DevOps of our customer require that our application creates database objects and Kafka topics automatically on application start, if they are missing. Moreover, they want the application to ...
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Authors such as Dave Farley advise us to "only build packages once", so that we can "be sure the thing we’re deploying is the same thing we’ve tested throughout the deployment pipeline&...
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I am setting up a Github repository for a project that will have multiple Microservices. I have created a sub-directory for each microservice under One Repository. ProjectRepository \Services ...
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I'm building at a Build and Deployment pipeline and looking for clarification on a couple points. In addition, I'm trying to implement Trunk Based Development with short-lived branches. The process I ...
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Is it a good practice to hit actual database for Integrations test(Not prod but pre prod DB) for Jenkins Night builds? The reason I am asking this is because our DAO uses procedures to perform simple ...
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I am trying to start using GitHub flow in my project. I like that it is simple and, more importantly, it encourages continuous delivery. However, there is one thing about this flow that I cannot ...
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The Background I have a friend (no, really!). This friend works in the layer between IT and end users. Something like a business analyst or consultant. This friend does not have a technical or IT ...
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We are developing a system that runs a certain kind of simulation for our customers: Every simulation runs on it's own server. We typically have a two digit number of simulations running. A client can ...
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This is something that is puzzling me a bit. I am seeing some people who like to implement DB-related integration tests (in the case of BLOBAs) to test the insertion with a Legacy DB in a CI pipeline, ...
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My Goal I'm currently in the process of trying to get my company to adopt Continuous Deployment of the web product I work on. As far as I know, we're the first product in the company to attempt this. ...
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I have an application that's mostly one large data pipeline. That pipeline runs daily and stores processed data in the database (it takes the execution date as its argument). Occasionally the client ...
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We have built an iOS/MacOS library, that is being used by several iOS & Mac Apps of a very big company. The library is being distributed through Cocoapods and Carthage, the package managers for ...
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I need a clarification about the correct process to use a CD to update an environment where a Docker Swarm runs. I understood that I can configure my CD to execute docker service update --image foo:1....
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I mainly work on custom web applications that have just one production deployment. While we are moving to continuous delivery, I was wondering if that approach reduces the need to make settings ...
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I'm developing a Spring boot / Batch application. What I'd like to do is to have a separated module for every job. This is a reasonable decision because different tasks (Spring Batch Job) have ...
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We're Scrum teams building microservices. Our GitHub repositories are single-branch, each of us integrates his/her code into master several times a day, with no feature branches. Our Jenkins pipelines ...
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This is not about the specification of semver itself (which is crystal clear), but rather about the best approach to implement it within a development pipeline when building libraries. TL;DR: who/what ...
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I asked this question originally on StackOverflow, and was advised to post it here instead. My question is concerning the best practices for continuous deployment and continuous integration especially ...
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I have a question regarding CI/CD procedure. I do have 2 Jenkins jobs, the 1st one will build a binary file who is a dependency to the 2nd job build successfully. Should I push this binary from 1st ...
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I'm developing a SaaS application where I'm required to keep track and publish every change in a changelog. I've started to follow a Semantic Versioning approach and also using Continuous Delivery. ...
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We have a several GIT repos in Azure DevOps with .NET Core web applications that are related to each other with the use of submodule (we used autocreation of NuGet Packages in a private NuGet store, ...
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Let me use Wine as an example. Wine on Ubuntu uses the server-client architecture. While I am using wine on Ubuntu to run some .exe programs, I upgrade wine. While I am able to continuously running ...
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I have read some blog articles, papers and books about Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, but I still can't find a point where you could say this is where CI ends and CD starts. I ...
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As I was reading an update on an issue in github an user suggested me to read the '12factor' principles. While I was reading it I started having some questions on some concepts written in the ...
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I am building a system that consists of multiple programs on many machines, some cloud services (such as RDS) and so on. In an ideal world, I would like to supply some configuration (e.g. deployment ...
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We are currently working on a Xamarin Forms (.NET Core) application. We use Microsofts DevOps for the code repo, building and deployment. Since we want to test newly developed features in a safe ...
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I currently have an AWS Codepipeline that is setup to automatically pull an Express, NodeJS API and deploy it with Lambda and API Gateway. It pulls the code from my GitHub repo production branch and ...
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We are a central team, responsible for around 10 services. Other parts of our company depend on these 10 services to write their applications, and we often have to collaborate on new features before ...
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I am getting into SonarQube and everything looks quite and simple so far, but I am not sure what is the final purpose of CCQ overall. Yes it gives you a lot of tips about whats going on inside your ...
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I have to define the new way of working for a development team which goes from a one man unit, to a distributed team with programmers al over the world. The team will work with svn. This is a non-...
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Because the reaction of @DanCornilescu I understood that my question was not clear. That is why I edited the question heavily. I was brought in on a project where there was only one developer. All ...
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