Continuous Delivery 101 By @Dynatrace | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

The ability to automatically and reliably deploy entire application runtime environments is a key factor to optimizing the average time it requires to take features from idea to the hands of your (paying) customers. This minimization of feature cycle time or feature lead time is, after all, the primary goal of Continuous Delivery. Today, I will introduce you to the whys and wherefores of deployment automation and discuss its importance for driving the adoption of DevOps. Production servers can be described as “grown works of art”: An unknown number of commands have been applied by various people over time, often in an ad-hoc manner, and written documentation is commonly outdated, if at all present.

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