It seems like the dream of DevOps and CI/CD in today’s software world is to reach a point where you deploy to production 15 times a day. But, is that really feasible or necessary for your applications?

Today, automation is not about speed of release, but about ensuring a smooth, painless operation. Teams utilize automation to ensure that when the time comes, they are ready and aren’t exposing risks or accidentally creating more steps. When teams are getting ready to deploy to production, they face a number of critical considerations, including:

- Understanding dependencies between application downtimes and user frequency.
- When is the right time to deploy with legacy code and understanding what internal systems are impacted.
- Training, which adds time and resources.
- Explaining new features and functions frequently making it difficult for anyone to keep up.

In this session, we will walk through realistic goals and approaches to deploy to production faster and setting your team up for the potential to build once and deploy anywhere. We will discuss how creating smaller outage windows and only making small changes will help teams deliver faster while keeping systems and applications up and running.

In this talk, attendees will learn:
- How to successfully deploy faster
- How to automate deployments safely and efficiently
- How to align your DevOps team for CI/CD optimization

This session is targeted at anyone starting out with DevOps/Sofware Delivery or looking to refine their DevOps/Software Delivery goals. Other conferences/webinars this session has appeared is the DevOps Experience in November 2022 and internal training.