CI/CD as a Control System

Designing Cloud, DevOps, and DevSecOps Platforms for Scale, Stability, and Autonomous Delivery

This book is your guide to a fresh approach to cloud platforms using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Instead of treating DevOps and DevSecOps as a collection of tools or processes, this book teaches you to view software delivery as a control system.

As you progress through the chapters, you will learn to see pipelines as execution mechanisms, understand the insights provided by feedback telemetry, create policies that define constraints, and decide how much control should be automated versus where human intervention is necessary. You will understand why delivery systems become unstable, slow, or risky as they scale, and learn how to manage these issues at the enterprise level.

The book uses a practical, systemoriented methodology. Each concept is explained using real engineering scenarios. Controlsys