Five (easy?) Steps Towards Continuous Delivery
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This document outlines five steps towards achieving continuous delivery: 1. Realize deployment automation is a prerequisite, not the goal of continuous delivery. 2. Understand goals like reliability and time-to-market, then take pragmatic steps like value stream mapping. 3. Eliminate manual sign-offs and create trust in automated tests using techniques like behavior-driven development. 4. Address the gaps between development and operations teams through collaboration on deployments. 5. Consider architectural adjustments like migrating to microservices for independent, faster delivery pipelines.
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Five (easy?) Steps Towards Continuous Delivery
- 1. Five (easy?) Steps Towards Continuous Delivery Eberhard Wolff @ewolff innoQ
- 5. What is CD?
- 6. Continuous Delivery = Deployment automation
- 7. Continuous Delivery = Deployment automation to increase speed
- 8. Production problem. Boss screams at you. How long to production? <15 min <30 min <60 min >60 min >1 day
- 9. OH “The application server takes 15 min to start.”
- 10. Why don’t we deliver software every day into production?
- 11. Old release Hot fix Old release New release
- 12. Risk of bug fix small compared to keeping faulty release in production.
- 13. Would we deliver into production more often if it took e.g. 5 minutes?
- 14. Would we deliver software into production more often with Puppet, Chef, Docker?
- 15. Step One Realize deployment automation is just a prerequisite for Continuous Delivery!
- 16. Continuous Delivery = Deployment automation to increase speed
- 17. Continuous Delivery = Deployment automation to increase speed
- 18. What is CD?
- 19. Agile Manifesto Principles Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
- 20. Build Pipeline Commit Stage Automated Acceptance Testing Automated Capacity Testing Manual Explorative Testing Release Many tests to minimize risk Infrastructure automation Fast Feedback
- 21. Why Continuous Delivery? > Faster Deployment > Higher Reliability > Reproducibility
- 22. Why Continuous Delivery? > Cost-savings hard to estimate > CD is an important step towards better and faster results €
- 23. Understand the Goal! > Seemingly simple > …but often forgotten > Not just about time-to-market > Might also be reliability!
- 24. Reliability > Errors hard to reproduce > Software hard to install > Invest in deployment automation > Ensure environment is identical in development and production
- 25. Time-to-Market > Optimize processing time! > There is already a pipeline > Goal: Constant flow of features through the pipeline > Optimize throughput
- 26. Value Stream Mapping > Analyze existing pipeline > Optimize throughput
- 27. Commit Acceptance Testing Capacity Testing Release Delay Lead Time 5 Days 2 Days 1 Day 1 day 1 day 1 day Automated Acceptance Testing Automated Capacity Testing Testing, Sign Off & Release Cycle Time = Delay + Lead Time 1 hour 20 minutes 20 minutes 30 minutes 2 Day 2 day
- 28. Commit Acceptance Testing Capacity Testing Release Delay Lead Time 5 Days 2 Days 1 Day 1 day 1 day 1 day Automated Acceptance Testing Automated Capacity Testing Testing, Sign Off & Release Cycle Time = Delay + Lead Time 1 hour 20 minutes 20 minutes 30 minutes 2 Day 2 day 11 days 5 days
- 29. Result > Cycle time reduced: Automated tests faster > …and less effort > Still manual sign-off & Release > Feedback faster: Early 80% acceptance test
- 31. Step Two Understand goals! Take pragmatic steps!
- 32. Commit Automated Acceptance Testing Automated Capacity Testing Testing, Sign Off & Release 1 hour 2 day Why Sign Off? Acceptance test = software is accepted
- 33. Why Sign-Off? > Customer wants to check the final result. > Understandable > But: Slow > But: Hard to reproduce
- 35. Sign-off->Automated Tests > Automated tests are fast > …and easily reproducible > …and cheaper > Obviously the better choice!
- 36. Why Sign-off? > Risk of deploying the wrong software > Lack of trust in tests > Risk handling strategy
- 37. Handling risk > Make it easier to resolve issues > Make deployment easier and faster > Problem in production easier to fix > Deployment automation
- 39. Old release New release New release New release New release
- 40. Handling risk > Smaller deployments > More frequent deployments > Less risk that an error sneaks in > Easier to reverse
- 41. Creating Trust > Customer must understand the tests > Reviews > Use proper kind of tests
- 43. The ultimate requirement is an automated acceptance test. XP 1999
- 44. UI Tests: Selenium > Easy to start > Natural for testers > Fragile > Loose semantics
- 45. Behavior-driven development: Example Scenario: User registers successfully Context Event Expected outcome Given a new user with email [email protected] firstname Eberhard name Wolff When the user registers Then a customer with email [email protected] should exist And no error should be reported
- 46. Creating Trust > UI Tests are overused and have drawbacks > BDD is designed for customers > But most important: > Choose whatever the customer understands! > UI tests might be OK
- 47. Step Three Eliminate manual sign-offs! Create trust in tests!
- 48. CD & DevOps > Usually Dev wants Continuous Delivery (CD) > Dev wants easier and faster releases > Ops not supportive > However, they should aim for less risky deployments…
- 49. Ops > Optimized for costs > Caught in a local optimum > i.e. standardized environments > …but manual deployment > Large investment for full automation > Continuous Delivery problem to be expected
- 50. Commit Automated Acceptance Testing Automated Capacity Testing Testing, Sign Off & Release Dev Ops
- 51. CD & DevOps > No need to create DevOps teams > Collaboration needed, though > Deployment is a joined Ops / Dev effort > Good news: No reorganzation
- 52. CD & DevOps > Seek feedback from Ops early on > Try to leverage Ops experience
- 55. Step Four Deal with the gap between Dev and Ops!
- 58. Challenges > Dependencies on 3rd party systems > Must provide test systems > …or mocks > Large database > Must provide test data
- 59. Challenges > Tests take too long > Deployment takes too long > Continuous Delivery pipeline takes far too long
- 60. Continuous Delivery with large deployment units is hard.
- 61. Like real hard.
- 62. Server Server Microservices > Independent deployment units > E.g. process, VMs, Docker containers > Any technology > Any infrastructure Micro Service Micro Service
- 66. Microservice Pipeline > Build pipeline per Microservice > Small > Easy to set up > Simpler (3rd party systems) > Faster Feedback: Less tests > Separate critical and less critical parts
- 67. Migrate to Microservices > Add Microservices to existing system > Implement new features in Microservices > No need to redo the full application
- 69. But can you do Continuous Delivey without supporting it in the architecture?
- 71. Conclusion
- 72. Final words > Do no underestimate the effort! > This is not about automation to save cost. > It is about increasing quality!
- 73. Conclusion > Deployment automation is just a prerequisite > Understand the goals! Take pragmatic steps! > Eliminate sign-offs! Create trust in tests! > Deal with the gap between Dev and Ops! > Adjust the architecture!