Devops Mastery

Automated Deployment or Automated Build tools are all complicated to give a true evaluation. Before you even try to evaluate the tools, working through the complete process manually is normally the best place to start. You need to understand how the deployment process works before you can figure out what tool will meet your needs. Things to take note of is the tests you will need to run, the operating systems involved, and how you plan to do the deployments to production. You are trying to achieve consistency across all your environments so deploying a tool designed for web applications may not have the features you need to deploy smart phone apps. This isn't to say that most of the tools can't do both just that you need to probe deeply to make sure all your requirements are met. Below is my top list of things to look at when choosing a tool of this class. As with all the other articles on tools I have written this list probably isn't complete. You will need to assure that you are meeting all of the "