Chapter 2. A View from Orbit

The DevOps process and Continuous Delivery pipelines can be very complex. You need to have a grasp of the intended final results before starting the implementation.

This chapter will help you understand how the various systems of a Continuous Delivery pipeline fit together, forming a larger whole.

In this chapter, we will read about:

• An overview of the DevOps process, a Continuous Delivery pipeline implementation, and the participants in the process
• Release management
• Scrum, Kanban, and the delivery pipeline
• Bottlenecks