Chapter 5. Ever-Ready to Deploy Using Continuous Delivery
Thanks to the Continuous Integration setup we examined in the previous chapter, we now have a way of continuously producing deployable artifacts from our source code.
Our next goal will be to upgrade the pipeline from a Continuous Integration to an Integration plus Delivery one. To illustrate, we are in the middle of a three stage workflow:
That is to say, following a successful Integration run, we trigger the Delivery stage that will do the following:
Launch a vanilla EC2 instance
Apply configuration management to it:
Install the
demo-app
RPM we producedInstall other required packages to turn it into a web server
Test the applied configuration (using Serverspec)
Produce an AMI out of the configured instance (using Packer)
Launch an EC2 instance from the produced AMI
Run additional tests against the new EC2 instance
This pipeline will ensure that the application RPM installs correctly, our configuration management gets applied as expected...