Advanced CI/CD: 6 steps to better CI/CD pipelines [Video]

There’s CI/CD and then there is advanced CI/CD. Here are six ways devsecops teams can improve the security and performance of their CI/CD pipelines.

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“Some organizations believe developer experience to be a mystical art involving arcade machines or table tennis, but developers get the most satisfaction from the smooth flow of their changes from commit to customer,” says Paul Stovell, founder and CEO of Octopus Deploy. “When your developers want to do great work, CI/CD is the difference between total frustration and developer joy.”

Developing CI/CD pipelines and their underlying platforms is a mature devsecops discipline, but there is room for improvement. Here are six ways to improve the current state of CI/CD pipelines and deliver meaningful business impacts.

6 ways to get more from your CI/CD pipelines

1. Increase continuous testing with genAI
2. Target continuous deployment
3. Embrace hybrid CI/CD
4. Shift-left security with CI/CD plugins
5. Secure and improve pipeline observability
6. Understand the business impacts

Increase continuous testing with genAI

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