Infrastructure Code Continuous Delivery Concepts

Internal

• Continuous Delivery
• Infrastructure as Code Concepts
• Infrastructure Code Testing

Overview

The delivery pipeline metaphor describes how a change in the infrastructure code progresses from the person that makes the change all the way to production.

Reconcile with Continuous Delivery.

Infrastructure Delivery Pipeline

Stages

A infrastructure delivery pipeline implies multiple types of activities, grouped in stages:

Build

The build stage compiles application code, runs unit tests and integration tests, in as offline and online testes, and publishes a deployable artifact in a repository.

Online Tests

In a dedicated environment.

Validate

TO CONTINUE: IaC Chapter 8 Core Practice: Continuously Test and Deliver → Infrastructure Delivery Pipelines.

TO INTEGRATE:

• Pipeline Stack Parameters

Organizatorium

• Modeling Deployment Pipelines: Build Propagation using Fan-in/Fan-out https://www.gocd.org/2017/04/17/build-propagation-using-fan-in-fan-out.html

Tools

• Atlantis
• Terraform Cloud
• WeaveWorks