Next steps

Use the Litmus test for CI/CD pipelines section to evaluate the DevOps processes in your organization. Determine whether your processes are fully CI/CD. If they aren't, decide whether they need improvement to take full advantage of the benefits of CI/CD deployments.

How do you know when you're finished? Well, the answer is that a lot of organizations never actually finish. They stop somewhere along the way, at a suitable spot for their use case. Though a fully CI/CD pipeline is the best-case scenario, it depends heavily on the organizational situation and the stakeholders behind the decision. Stakeholders must decide which stage of the CI/CD implementation works best for their use case and how best to map the progression to the next phases.

For more information about designing and building CI/CD pipelines, see Resources.