How businesses are benefiting by adopting CI/CD in delivery pipelines?

 

There are several benefits associated with CI/CD implementation:

 

Enhancement in Collaboration and Quality

 

Implementing continuous integration allows software developers to commit code frequently, making it easier to find defects and quality-related complexities. Also, following the traditional methods makes developers do the same work again and again. Finally, this affects their productivity and brings less ROI. Continuous integration leads to fewer merge conflicts due to the shorter commit cycles, which ultimately save a lot of working hours.

 

Version Control System 

 

The initial step of continuous integration is configuring the version control system. Instead of frequent code commits, defects are solved in both short and more extended periods. There are various techniques to control the features that are ready for deployment.

 

Version-controlling using branches is one of the techniques. The branching strategy make rules over how developers should manage the new code. It helps handle the new code into various branches once the code is ready for testing and implementation and merges to the main branch. In the case of long development cycles, the feature can be developed in a separate branch and later merged with the main branch. This branching methodology works very well but can be complex to handle in the parallel development of multiple different features.

 

Feature flags

 

Another important technique for managing features is feature flags. It allows teams to turn on or a feature at runtime. Developers can push the features in the development stage into production and turn off until they are ready for the production environment and used by the end-users. CI automates the build process. Developers can use the database, software, and other components for the automated builds.

 

CI makes the automated builds and can also help implement unit tests and another software-related testing. This automating testing features guarantees developers that their code is not breaking any present unit tests.

 

Using CI/CD, developers can prompt builds anytime. Code commits can prompt he builds in the version control system or on a specified schedule. Software teams can set their build schedules according to the size of the team and deployment frequency. Planning forward is the best practice to reduce any delays in the deployments and releasing new features.

 

Conclusion

 

CI/CD is an essential part of the software development and deployment cycle. It can be beneficial for small teams and large organizations. It helps in making regular modifications, getting feedback, and making secured executions. The benefits linked with CI/CD don’t limit only the enterprises but also affect other stakeholders, such as product owners, dev and ops teams, and the end-users.

 

Many times management and developers disagree about the implementation of CI/CD. They think about it to be as an additional task. But after its implementation, it can deliver benefits such as minimized costs and improved ROI.

 

Additionally, with automation, enterprises will spend more time building features and products instead of engaging in the same redundant tasks.

 

Sun Technologies CI/CD approach helps build and enhance the applications with rapid time to market and better user experience. 

 

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