The delivery pipeline is the mechanism for configuring continuous delivery in the agile application development and deployment lifecycle. The delivery pipeline is a service in the DevOps category. A suite of other services are also available under the DevOps category on Bluemix. The services available in this category at the time of writing this book is as shown in the following screenshot:
Before we look at how to configure the delivery pipeline, we will need to create an application that we will use for illustration. So let us get started by creating a starter application by using a boilerplate, as we did in the previous chapter. This time, we will use the Internet of Things boilerplate to create the starter application. We have chosen this boilerplate for few reasons, as follows:
Understanding how to write applications that are wired and not coded
Getting a feel for writing or wiring applications...
