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Problems to solve when automating deployments

Problems to solve when automating deployments

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Problems to solve when automating deployments

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You're here with me today learning about deployment strategies because you already know that manual deployments are just not good enough. So I don't need to keep trying to convince you to give up all of your manual ways. And if you're like me, you've been burned enough times to have a healthy disdain for for manual tasks that you know can and should be automated. But as with any improvement, it's always a good idea to remember where we come from. In fact, knowing how to manually perform all the tasks needed to deploy working software turns out to be very useful when it comes to automating them. You see, everything we're going to talk about from here on out, every manual task is still there doing its thing. Automation isn't doing anything new. It's simply performing those manual tasks for us. But someone had to have enough knowledge of manual tasks to set it up in the first place. So my advice for you is to never lose your knowledge of what's going on under the hood in the background…

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