Infrastructure code needs the same best practices used with application code, but as Dawn Foster told TNS readers, buggy software is foiling dreams of infrastructure-as-code. A recent survey by Justin Garrison, a systems engineer at Walt Disney Animation Studios, sheds light on how often continuous delivery and unit testing occurs. 43 percent of respondents said they deploy infrastructure code with a delivery pipeline — not shabby, but significantly lower than the 59 percent that delivers other applications with a continuous deployment pipeline. Almost a third say they perform unit testing of infrastructure code. If true, it would be surprising given that many developers downplay unit testing. Interestingly, three-quarters of the respondents that deploy infrastructure with a pipeline also perform unit testing. This makes us ask: if you are using Kubernetes to deploy infrastructure, are you also performing unit tests?
Originally published in The New Stack Update.
