Ken Mugrage

People often say that they're practicing continuous delivery, and then add something like "I can let the security team know any time" or "I just have to run the performance tests." Ken Mugrage explains why you're not done with your continuous delivery journey if you can't push your software to production right now. Along the way, Ken explores code management strategies, deployment patterns, and types of continuous delivery pipelines you can use to make sure you can deploy right now.

Although continuous delivery (CD) and DevOps are growing in popularity, not much practical information is available about how to get started. This hands-on technical tutorial is the place to get your feet wet and your questions answered. For this workshop, Ken and Varsha will provide a cloud-based instance of the continuous delivery server GoCD for you to learn on. You will configure a complete continuous delivery pipeline from source code commit through deployment. Learn when to run each common type of automated test for the fastest possible feedback and how to run tests in parallel for shorter cycle times. Moving from practice to theory, Ken explores industry studies and peer-reviewed scientific research that show the value of practicing continuous delivery and adopting a DevOps culture. He describes how the need for CD developed and then fed the requirements for culture change to support DevOps and CD practices. In this workshop, learn how to create and then practice creating a continuous delivery pipeline—from the ground up.