As companies strive to attain achieve software development agility, they are looking to automate each phase of their software development pipeline. The ultimate goal is to fully automate the deployment of code to production, triggered when a developer checks in a fix or a feature. Companies such as Netflix have built extensive tooling to enable their developers to achieve this level of sophisticated automation [1]. In this post, I will describe how deployments of containerized applications can be completely automated with GitHub, Docker Hub and Nirmata.
