This excellent research report by Paul Delory (contract required) lays out a comprehensive view of all the components in the flow required to deliver applications into production.  It’s an impressively laid out assembly line along the lines of what we’ve called “continuously integrated date center” in the past.

We’re excited to see RackN and “Bare Metal Configuration” included and look forward to showing how much larger a role we actually play for our customers.

NEW RESEARCH: An illustrated guide to the infrastructure automation pipeline, featuring some of the more popular tools used at each stage. Gartner clients, check it out here: https://t.co/lzcl5C0fcV pic.twitter.com/xC5r7iEHDK

— P.A.C. Delory (@pacdelory) September 28, 2020