Use continuous Integration CI and continuous delivery CD to improve the speed of software delivery. This book presents a game changerhow to use pipelines to automate the software delivery process. The theories about CICD are much the same but the book covers what the development of pipelines looks like and how testing of pipelines themselves should be performed.Most teams just plunge into coding without thinking about the CICD process itself. Why dont we use the same development method for pipelines that we use for apps Pipelines code development undergoes similar stages as application code development such as requirements analysis development testing implementation operations and monitoring. This is the starting point of the book. It describes the current challenges with pipeline development and how this process can be improved and structured. It describes in detail how to design pipelines and shows examples in BPMN 2.0 notation. What Youll Learn Know the shortcomings and challenges of current pipeline development such as misalignment between the pipeline engineer and the teams workflow the use of infrastructure as code IaC and pipeline securityUnderstand the need for CICD requirements through the books nonexhaustive list of more than 60 CICD requirements provided to inspire and increase awarenessSee how certain choices affect the way a pipeline is designed and realizedBecome familiar with branching strategy build strategy test strategy release strategy and deployment strategy that are explained in detail in the book including their effect on pipeline designKnow how pipelines can be unit tested using a realworld exampleKnow how performance bottlenecks in a pipeline occur how they can be detected and how they can be solvedView a complete implementation including code showing how the guidelines in this book are applied to a real use case Who This Book Is For DevOps engineers and solution architects involved with automating the software supply chain an