We have already covered the most crucial parts of the Continuous Delivery process: the commit phase, the artifact repository, automated acceptance testing, and configuration management.
In this chapter, we will focus on the missing parts of the final pipeline, which are the environments and infrastructure, application versioning, and nonfunctional testing.
This chapter covers the following points:
- Designing different software environments and their infrastructures
- Securing the connection between Jenkins agents and servers
- Introducing various kinds of nonfunctional tests
- Presenting the challenges of nonfunctional tests in the Continuous Delivery process
- Explaining different types of application versioning
- Completing the Continuous Delivery pipeline
- Introducing the concept of smoke testing and adding it to the final pipeline