A conversation about trunk-based development
I talk with Jason Adam about trunk-based development and related topics.The Tiny DevOps podcast is back!
I’m joined by Jason Adam who is a software developer with a non-traditional background in biology, business development, and data analytics. Now he’s active as a developer, and on the lookout for proven practices he can introduce to his team. On this episode we talk about Trunk-Based Development, and the related topics of continuous integration and deployment, infrastruture as code, and much more.
In this episode
- How Trunk-based development differs from GitFlow and other branching strategies
- Two flavors of trunk-based development
- How Trunk-based development fits into the larger picture of continuous integration and continuous delivery
- Techniques for working in smaller batches
- How test-driven development enhances trunk-based development
- Using feature flags for smaller batches
- How to keep pull requests small
- Cherry-picking small changes out of a larger pull request
- How Infrastructure-as-Code works with CI and CD