When it comes to at-scale software development, is continuous delivery and release automation (CDRA) the next step in the evolution of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)? In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, Anders Wallgren, CloudBees vice president of technology strategy, discusses CDRA, supporting tools and the goals and the challenges that DevOps teams have when delivering software. CI/CD systems provider CloudBees was named a leading CDRA vendor in the report “The Forrester Wave: Continuous Delivery And Release Automation, Q2 2020.”

Value-stream CDRA is really about making your value stream executable and visible on an ongoing real-time basis. So it’s taking all of the things, all of the activities, all of the tools, all of the platforms, all of the software — everything that you do to build, test, qualify, deploy and release your software — and automating that,” Wallgren said.

These kinds of organizations “have to be governable and controllable and my point of view is that automation is auditing.”

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