Continuous Deployment can accelerate your time to deliver value to your customers. This quest walks you through enabling the Github Action for Armory CD-as-a-Service so that your application is automatically deployed following every PR merge.
Harness (previously known as Armory) makes continuous deployment achievable and effortless, at any scale, for all developers. Easy-to-use continuous deployment (CD) solutions eliminate the need to migrate away from existing tools and minimize disruptions to an existing software delivery lifecycle. Developers can easily and confidently deploy updates that improve and protect their customer experience.
Harness was looking for a new take on teaching complex technical concepts to DevOps engineers. Continuous deployment, while immensely important for modern DevOps, isn’t easy to plan and implement in an efficient and scalable way. Understanding best practices before you’re locked into a specific process is vital for efficiency and can help you make better deployment decisions for your organization.
Using Wilco, Harness (then known as Armory) was able to showcase its Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service platform to DevOps engineers within Wilco’s environment, while conveying best practices for CD through hands-on, engaging challenges.
The benefits include:
- Exposing DevOps engineers to Armory in a safe, yet production-like environment.
- Furthering brand goals of providing value to DevOps engineers.
- Showing how Harness's best practices can be used to create good CD infrastructure.
By breaking down the material it wants to convey into several quests, Harness can focus each quest on a specific topic and accelerate the upskilling process by making the necessary knowledge bite-sized and easier to absorb.
This is why quest one is focused on configuring CD and future quests will dive into topics such as further CD concepts and advanced deployment strategies, including canary deployment.
