05.2 · Capability in Shipping

Release engineering

The pipelines and practices that take a change from merge to production reliably and repeatably.

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05.2.1CI/CD pipelinesAutomatically building, testing and delivering every change.
05.2.2Automated deploymentsReleasing to production with one command or none.
05.2.3EnvironmentsDevelopment, staging and production environments that behave alike.
05.2.4Rollback strategiesUndoing a bad release quickly.

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Where to start

3 resources

docsStart here
Continuous delivery ↗
DORA (Google Cloud) · 10 min
What it takes for releasing to become routine, low-risk and possible at any time.
docsStart here
Deployment automation ↗
DORA (Google Cloud) · 7 min
How to remove the manual steps from releasing, and the common pitfalls on the way.
bookGo deeper
Release engineering (Site Reliability Engineering, chapter 8) ↗
Google SRE · 15 min
How Google makes builds and releases repeatable, hermetic and self-service.

1 tools

ToolFreemium
GitHub Actions
docs.github.com ↗
CI/CD built into GitHub, for running tests, checks and deployments on every change.