Just 11% find their
CI/CD infrastructure
reliable
"
eBook - Improve CI/CD Pipeline Efficiency
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There is no doubt that while CI/CD has helped shore up many areas around digital
innovation and development, it still has many pitfalls that organizations can easily
run into without the right tools and infrastructure in place.
CI/CD Can Still Fall Short
Key Benefits of CI/CD
Promotes Developers
and IT Operations to
work together
Breaks down siloes Identifies coding flaws or
bottlenecks proactively to
increase productivity
Faster app/software
delivery, improved
innovation, and recovery
process
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Deployment
CI is the practice of integrating code into a shared
repository (e.g. Github) and building/ testing each
change automatically, as early as possible - usually
several times a day.
Continuous Delivery enables software to be released
to production at any time, often by automatically
pushing changes to a staging system.
Continuous Deployment goes further and
pushes changes to production automatically.
Continuous Integration
Research from 2021 indicates CI/CD hasn't quite reached its full utility.
CloudBolt Industry Insights surveyed over 200 global IT leaders and
found that over 3/4ths identified themselves as only "intermediate" CI/CD
users. Almost 70% of respondents said they need days or weeks to deploy
their CI/CD pipeline.
What's causing these issues? In many respects, the challenges are with the
infrastructure around CI/CD. Just 11% find their CI/CD infrastructure
reliable, meaning they see failures often, resulting in drawn-out and painful
CI/CD processes. Manual processes for CI/CD were cited as the top
pain for respondents, while detecting failures proactively was also cited.
Missing automated processes and a lack of visibility after deployment is
costly in terms of time and money.
