You want to set up your first automatic deployment pipeline that builds, tests, and deploys code changes to your target cloud environment. You’ve spent days reading docs and blogs to figure out what your automatic deployment pipeline should comprise. But it all seems really overwhelming. They mention various tools like AWS, Azure, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Jenkins, CircleCI, Terraform, and Kubernetes — the list is endless. And you’re not sure which one is necessary for your initial automatic deployment pipeline.
What does your first continuous delivery pipeline need to do and not do?