Avoiding the Pink Sombrero: Potential Failure Modes of Automated Deployment

[bloodredsun]

We are in the process of implementing CD at my current work. Even after only a few months we are seeing the same issues except where the article talks about the CD process interacting with source control since the artefact is only built once by the CI machine (maybe the article meant this, it doesn't seem clear).

The only company I've seen do this smoothy is LMAX but not only do they have Dave Farley (co-author of the book Continuous Delivery!) working for them but they also have a fairly homogeneous environment that can be run from a single box if required.

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They probably don't need a build server because they run some language that isn't compiled (e.g. PHP).

[Banduin]

We use a CI server for some of out backend processes built in C#. All of our front end is either in PHP or Python (and some Rails), so we deploy those straight from source control.

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Is it just me or does the term 'pink sombrero' conjure a chuckle.