Some time back I came across an article “5 things Amazon taught me about deployment automation.” It does not say anything radically new, but gives some good examples of why deployment automation (including quality automation) is good. Oh, and this is *nothing* about how Amazon does deployment automation – they just use the end-user Amazon experience as parallels to deployment automation.
“When you make [deployment] cheap an easy … you change behavior in radical ways.
- …There’s a surprising difference between having a web page where someone can easily request a deployment and automatically deploying to test as the result of a new build or a nightly schedule. On event/schedule gets has a bigger impact over self-service… this helps turn CI into CD
- It’s about effort, not speed. [Making testing easy is more important than making testing fast … most of the time]
- When deployments are a big, scary…
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