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Embracing DevOps Release Management

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835461853
Pages 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Joel Kruger Joel Kruger
Profile icon Joel Kruger

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle and Its Design
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle 3. Chapter 2: A Brief Introduction to Release Management 4. Chapter 3: What Are the Various SDLC Release Management Models? 5. Part 2: The Advantages of DevOps Release Management
6. Chapter 4: What Problems Does DevOps Release Management Try to Solve? 7. Chapter 5: Understanding What Makes DevOps Release Management Unique 8. Chapter 6: Understanding the Basics of CI/CD 9. Chapter 7: A Practical Pipeline for Technical Release Managers 10. Chapter 8: How CI/CD Pipelines Enforce Good DevOps Release Management 11. Part 3: Develop a Culture of DevOps in Your Organization’s Release Management Strategy
12. Chapter 9: Embracing DevOps Culture in Your Release Management Strategy 13. Chapter 10: What Does Receiving Support from Leadership and Stakeholders Look Like? 14. Chapter 11: Overcoming Common Pitfalls in DevOps Release Management 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Understanding branching strategies

The majority of contemporary version control systems offer support for branches, which are autonomous streams of work that originate from a core code base. The nomenclature for the primary branch in a version control system may vary, with possible designations including master, mainline, default, and trunk, depending on the specific system in use. Developers can generate branches derived from the source, therefore enabling them to function autonomously in conjunction with it.

The practice of branching facilitates seamless collaboration across teams of developers within a unified code repository. When a software developer starts creating a branch inside a version control system, a duplicate of the code base is generated, capturing the state of the code at that specific moment in time. Modifications made to the branch do not have an impact on the other developers within the team, but this pattern is undoubtedly advantageous. However, it is not strictly...

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