Architecting for Continuous Delivery

This short article will provide details about the various architecture specific requirements for good implementation of continuous delivery. It emphasizes on the need of the system to be architected/designed for continuous delivery.

• Deployability- The system should be well thought from the perspective of ease of deployment.
• Security-Security vulnerability should be well thought and should be built into the architecture.
• Loggability: The system architecture should consider aspects related to the logging requirements. It should cover what to log, logging mechanism/ log format, log size etc.
• Modifiability: The size of the requirements should be considered so that the modifications in the systems can be easily deployed.
• Monitorability: The system should be designed in such a way that the interfaces should be able to monitor the state and performance (and related aspects) of the system.
• Testability: The system should cover the aspects of testability of the system and cover details of pipeline (where each pipeline serves as quality gate)