In this video Viktor Vedmich and myself look at CI/CD in general and present basici information about how to get started with CI/CD. Start your Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment journey with your next software project! We talk about branching strategies, promotion timelines and DORA metrics. Everything you need to know to get started and share best practices to speed up your process. If you have any questions or thoughts or if you think we forgot certain topics, please let us know either in the comments or reach out on LinkedIn. Reach Viktor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vedmich/ 0:00 Introduction 1:01 Let's get started 1:53 Defining CI & CD - Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 6:54 SDLC Overview, Explaining CI and CD 11:02 Branching Strategies: Gitflow, Github Flow and Trunk-Based 23:25 A closer look at Continuous Integration 30:18 Defining different Tests and testing strategies 38:10 Promotion timelines and cadence 42:42 Different Deployment Strategies: Blue-Green, Canary and others 48:33 Metrics in CI/CD: DORA and others 52:35 A tool that captures DORA metrics? LinearB 53:49 Additional Custom Metrics for CI by Viktor 1:01:41 Wrap up and summary