Adopt Minimum Viable CD

[JoeHCQ1]

Overview

As a company, we score potential customers according to the minimumCD rubric and otherwise base ourselves in the CI/CD, DevSecOps tradition. We are only partially in alignment with that tradition right now. Rubric pulled from here: https://minimumcd.org/minimumcd/

❌ Continuous Delivery 50%

• [ ] Use Continuous integration 10%
• [ ] The application pipeline is the only way to deploy to any environment
• [ ] The pipeline decides the releasability of changes, its verdict is definitive
• [X] Artifacts created by the pipeline always meet the organization’s definition of deployable
• [X] Immutable artifact (no human changes after commit) All feature work stops when the pipeline is red
• [X] Production-like test environment
• [ ] Rollback on-demand
• [X] Application configuration deploys with artifact

❌ Continuous Integration 10%

• [ ] Trunk-based development 80%
• [ ] Work integrates to the trunk at a minimum daily
• [ ] Work has automated testing before merge to trunk
• [ ] Work is tested with other work automatically on merge
• [ ] All feature work stops when the build is red
• [ ] New work does not break delivered work

❌ Trunk Based Development 80%

• [X] All changes integrate into the trunk
• [ ] If branches from the trunk are used:
  • [X] They originate from the trunk
  • [X] They re-integrate to the trunk
  • [ ] They are short-lived and removed after the merge

[JoeHCQ1]

Cleared dates b/c internal discussions indicate this is not the priority.