Summary

This chapter started with an overview of demand management as input for an architecture. We learned that assessing business demand is the key driver for portfolios. In turn, a portfolio defines the artifacts and building blocks that we use to develop products, services, and, as such, applications. Since demand is changing fast, enterprises will need to speed up deployment processes. This can be achieved by automating as much as possible. Automation is done through pipelines, and in this chapter, we've learned what the different components are in architecting both application deployment and infrastructure pipelines.

In the last section, we discussed collaboration that is crucial in CI/CD, using DevOps. Teams will be formed by engineers with different skill sets, and they even may be hired from different companies, something we see frequently at large enterprises that have outsourced their IT. Therefore, enterprises will need to encourage strong collaboration, based...