We only partially succeeded in defining our continuous deployment stages. We did manage to execute all the necessary steps. We cloned the code, we run unit tests, and we built the binary and the Docker image. We deployed the application under test without affecting the production release, and we run functional tests. Once we confirmed that the application works as expected, we updated production with the new release. The new release was deployed through rolling updates but, since it was the first release, we did not see the effect of it. Finally, we run another round of tests to confirm that rolling updates were successful and that the new release is integrated with the rest of the system.
You might be wondering why I said that "we only partially succeeded." We executed the full pipeline. Didn't we?
One of the problems we're facing is that our...