This slide deck introduces seven easy steps that organizations can follow when building CI/CD pipelines, best practices to use when building pipelines and technologies such as platform native installers. Learn more: https://wso2.com/library/conference/designing-the-continuous-pipeline/

1. Architect, WSO2
Building Continuous-* Pipelines
Chamith Kumarage

2. Agenda
● Understand pipelines?
● 7 things to know
● How can WSO2 help?

3. Code
Unit, Integration, Functional
Testing
Deploy to
Testing
Env
Acceptance
Testing
Deploy/”Promote”
to Production
Continuous-* Pipelines
Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery
Continuous
Deployment

4. Why Pipelines?
● Repeatable, safe way to deliver software
● Quick updates to production
● Integrate with automated tests
● Visibility at each state of the pipeline
● Zero downtime

5. Building Pipelines
7 Things to Know

6. 1. Plan for frequent updates
Multiple pipelines
Multiple environments

7. 2. Early adoption of security
Code scans and penetration tests
Compliance

8. 3. Test automation and feedback
Automation and coverage
Prioritize and re-prioritize

9. 4. Staging before production
Pre-Production
Production like data

10. 5. Advance deployment strategies
High update frequency
Blue-Green, Canary, Rolling, etc.

11. 6. Monitor user experience
Matrices across all stages
Response times, performance, etc.

12. 7. Culture
Devs own it end-to-end
Code, Tests and Production operations

13. How WSO2
Can Help
● WSO2 can help you to pull off the last mile
● Installers built for various platforms

14. How WSO2
Can Help
● Selective updates (full and security-only)
● Configuration management (Puppet)
● Managed Cloud service

15. THANK YOU
wso2.com