Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Podcast: Episode 39 – CD Automation

Automation is a critical component of DevOps and Continuous Delivery. This morning on #c9d9 we discussed CD Automation and how you can apply Automation to accelerate release cycles, improve quality, safety and governance?

• What is the difference between Automation and Orchestration?
• Where should you begin your journey to introduce both?
• What tools should you use?
• How do you make it more efficient?
• What are the challenges and choke-points of CD pipelines, in terms of tooling, culture, visibility, control, and more?

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This episode features:

Dondee Tan @DondeeTan is a Test Architect at AlaskaAir IT responsible for providing technical leadership, solutions and strategic test direction. @DondeeTan | www.DondeeTan.com

Taco Bakker Taco previously worked as a Team Lead for a large internaltional bank, spending most of his time bridging Dev and Ops. Today he's a LEAN Six Sigma black belt focusing on CD. @tsbakker65 | www.tsbakker.nl/taco.html

On the next episode of Continuous Discussions:

Episode 40: CD for Legacy Applications

Join us on May 3 , to discuss CI and CD for legacy applications .

This episode will feature:

Deepak Karanth Chief Architect and Consultant. Agile and DevOps Champion. Deepak also helps companies with technical strategy and process improvements. @SoftwareYoga | softwareyoga.com

Jean D'Amore Consultant at ThoughtWorks Australia and corsican polyglot programmer who likes to be underwater, cook, and keep his garden green. @jeandamore | blog.corsamore.com

Manuel Pais Dev+Build+QA=#DevOps advocate. People-first technologist @ Skelton-Thatcher. Jack of all trades, master of continuous improvement. @manupaisable | www.infoq.com/author/Manuel-Pais

Tarun Arora Tarun is obsessed with high-quality working software, continuous delivery and Agile. He is a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio Development Tools and the author of 'DevOps & ALM with TFS 2015 ’ @arora_tarun | www.visualstudiogeeks.com/