Table of Contents
- Summary
- About the GigaOm Radar
- Market Categories & Deployment Types
- Key Criteria Comparison
- GigaOm Radar
- Vendor Roundup/Overview
- Conclusion
- Methodology
- About Jon Collins
- About GigaOm
- Copyright
1. Summary
The goal of an end-to-end Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline is to deliver software-based innovation and business value at both speed and scale. As we saw in the Key Criteria Report: Enterprise CI/CD report, continuous principles apply across the pipeline to integration, delivery, and deployment into test, pre-production, and production environments. An important concept is the ability to represent everything in the pipeline, and the pipeline itself, as inter-dependent artifacts (Figure 1).
The CI/CD pipeline should align with broader elements of innovation best practice, each of which needs to incorporate the ‘continuous’ principle including:
- Communication and collaboration
- Governance, compliance and risk
- Management and planning
- Evaluation, visibility and feedback
Together, these concepts make up the framework for how we can consider the shape of CI/CD today, and offer criteria for how enterprises can evaluate vendors of CI/CD tooling. In this report we provide a broad overview of the tools vendors are offering in response.