DevOps: CI/CD Tools to Watch Out for in 2022

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From the evolution of successful software-powered companies, the following five building characteristics have emerged: Speed, Agility, Automation, Security, and Quality. All five of these can be developed with DevOps Principles and new technologies. But with so many DevOps technologies on the market, software development has become more complicated than ever. CI/CD approach help reduce complexity while helping you deploy your software smoothly. CI/CD is about continually packaging, testing, and efficiently deploying code into a production environment. This approach has the advantage of eliminating integration issues and mitigating risk in deployments by making them frequent.

Breakdown of CI/CD

• Continuous Integration is a technique where developers connect and share their work as they progress on tasks. In the process, they continuously make changes to the entire system instead of making them one by one. The result is a reduction in bugs and a higher quality product. One of the main benefits of using Continuous Integration is sharing code across teams. When teams can see what other teams are doing, they can collaborate more efficiently. Again, this leads to higher quality products and fewer or no bugs. Lastly, Continuous Integration increases the speed at which developers push code changes by reducing the chance for conflict or error. It’s like an assembly line, where all members of the team pitch in and assemble a car in parallel, rather than one person working on one part of the car at a time.
• Continuous Delivery is a similar technique and includes delivering software after every successful build. Teams that practice Continuous Delivery will usually automate their release process. This eliminates errors that can occur when human intervention is required. In addition, by practicing Continuous Delivery, teams can update their software more often without worrying about any errors getting through. You can also use this technique for events or seasons when customers are less active to lower your risk for downtime in production environments.
• Continuous Deployment is the final step where the teams, if they want to, should be able to deploy to production at any given moment. This process can be completely automated, and DevOps aims at zero-touch automation of deployment. Still, sometimes that may not be practically easy, and hence we rarely see companies employing Continuous Deployment. 

While Continuous Deployment may not be practical across all departments or products, it has helped some companies improve their development process significantly by decreasing the time spent on bug fixes and speeding up the release cycle by deploying software frequently.

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January 18, 2022 at 08:06AM
Pavan Belagatti