Conclusion - CI/CD Series

In this series, we have covered how to implement CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous deployment) using DevOps (development and operations). We have shown how to go from a simple change in the code, to adding tests, building an assembly, planning the deployment, and eventually apply the changes to our live environment:

1. Introduction
   
2. Base Application
   
3. Unit Tests
   
4. Assembly
   
5. PATs
   
6. Plan
   
7. Apply

Future enhancements to this pipeline could include:

• Separate DEV and PROD environments
• DEV deploy on pushes to master
• PROD deploy on specific tag/release cycles
• Performance tests for the REST service
• Ability to destroy the resources using the Terraform destroy command
• Run PATs against service deployed in the DEV environment
• Currently, PATs are only run against the service running in-memory