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Definitive Guide to Continuous Delivery | Harness Resource

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, where you’re only as good as your last product or feature release, you need to move fast. Which means your continuous delivery (CD) process needs to be dialed in to rapidly respond to market demands, deliver new features, and remediate vulnerabilities in a timely manner.

With that said, we want to teach you how to significantly reduce deployment failures while accelerating your delivery pipeline. Discover how to empower your application teams to leverage policies and ensure compliance with enterprise standards. You’ll learn how to improve speed, governance, and security, to deliver a better user experience while meeting evolving customer needs.

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January 1, 2024

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Key Takeaways

Speed and Safety Support Each Other

High-quality code allows for more frequent, smaller releases. This reduces the risk of each deployment and builds confidence to accelerate delivery cycles.

Minimize Human Interaction to Accelerate Pipelines

Waiting for manual approvals or pipeline creation slows down feedback loops. Organizations should connect activities automatically and reserve human intervention strictly for exception scenarios.

Parallelize Work to Speed Up Delivery

Breaking lengthy functional tests into smaller suites and running security scans concurrently drastically reduces delivery time. This approach also lowers infrastructure costs by requiring fewer environments.

Inspect Code with Layered Testing

Continuous delivery relies on functional, performance, and security testing to ensure new changes do not break existing functionality. Automated policies can evaluate these test results to block or promote releases.

Reduce Risk with Progressive Delivery

Deploying changes to a small fraction of users first limits the blast radius of potential defects. Strategies like canary releases and feature targeting allow teams to build confidence before a full rollout.

Streamline and Automate Rollbacks

Modern continuous delivery platforms use continuous verification to monitor logging tools and automatically trigger rollbacks if anomalies are detected. This minimizes the impact and duration of any bad release.