• jet@hackertalks.com
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    4 months ago

    Promotes/deploys are just different ways of saying file transfer, which is what we see here.

    Nothing was stopping people from doing cicd in the old days.

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      4 months ago

      Sure, but having a hands-off pipeline for it which runs automatically is where the value is at.

      Means that there’s predictability and control in what is being done, and once the pipeline is built it’s as easy as a single button press to release.

      How many times when doing it manually have you been like “Oh shit, I just FTPd the WRONG STUFF up to production!” - I know I have. Or even worse you do that and don’t notice you did it.

      Automation takes a lot of the risk out.

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        4 months ago

        Not to mention the benefits of versioning and being able to rollback! There’s something so satisfying about a well set-up CI/CD pipeline.