In a cloud native world, where workloads and infrastructure are all geared towards applications that spend their entire life cycle in a cloud environemnt, One of the first shifts was towards lightning fast release cycles. No longer would dev and ops negotiate 6 month chunks of time to ensure safe deployment in production of major application upgrades. No, in a cloud native world, you deploy incremental changes in production whenever needed. And because the dev and test environments have been automated to the extreme, the pipeline for application delivery in production is much shorter and can be triggered by the development team, without needing to wait for a team of ops specialists to clear away obstacles and build out infrastructure – that’s already done.
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