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Deployment Pipeline: Instructor Guide - ITIL 4 Specialist: High-Velocity IT
Deployment Pipeline: Instructor Guide - ITIL 4 Specialist: High-Velocity IT
release process faster and more robust. These practices aim at small
and frequent batches of work due to the following reasons:
Early availability of functionality makes the work more valuable.
Fast feedback loops due to smaller changes that help create a
safe environment.
Role of Automation
The three practices strongly depends on comprehensive automation
of the build, test, and deployment process, such as:
Build Automation: Encompassing version control and the merging
of multiple developers’ changes into one shared code branch
Test Automation: Testing and validating each change
automatically in production-like environments
Automatic Provisioning
and software to activate a customer’s purchased services
Deployment Automation: Automating the process of moving
code from pre-production environments to the production
environment
Post-Deployment Testing: Validating functional and non-
functional properties, in particular, performance/load testing as
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