Comment by eb0la
5 years ago
There are too many factors here.
One of them is you don't own where your code runs anymore.
This might scare some people until they realize they can get high availability without waiting 3 months for some server to arrive, but it makes deployment harder.
I still believe the main reason people adopt CI/CD today is that "suddenly" deployment in a complex environment becomes easy and software gets tested. A lot.
> One of them is you don't own where your code runs anymore.
That's not new. The first money I earnt from computers was making websites. We didn't own the webservers; we rented webspace from some company. To deploy it, we literally just uploaded PHP files to a place using an FTP client. It was that simple and it worked.
Your example highlights the value chain of CI/CD!