"Redwood Pipeline Automation"
"Redwood Pipeline Automation" offers a comprehensive, modern exploration of automated workflow orchestration in today's complex software environments. Beginning with the historical evolution and architectural foundations of pipeline automation, the book details the requirements, challenges, and innovative patterns—such as DAGs, event-driven chains, and microservices—that underpin contemporary systems. It introduces readers to the Redwood platform, explaining its unique ecosystem, modular architecture, and the security principles essential for building robust, scalable automation strategies.
Delving deeper, the guide navigates through both core and advanced aspects of Redwood, from its internal architecture and workflow engine to the deployment of declarative pipelines using the Redwood DSL. Readers will master advanced topics including extensibility with plugins and hooks, high-availability design, multi-tenancy, dynamic branching, observability, and error resilience. The text places a strong emphasis on integrating lifecycle management best practices—such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration/delivery, automated testing, and secure secrets management—within real-world enterprise and cloud environments.
A forward-looking resource, "Redwood Pipeline Automation" concludes by examining ecosystem integrations, troubleshooting, compliance automation, and industry-specific use cases ranging from DevOps and big data to machine learning and edge orchestration. The book provides valuable insights into emerging trends like serverless orchestration, AI-driven pipeline optimization, and open-source collaboration, empowering engineers, architects, and technical leaders to harness the full potential of Redwood-powered automation in rapidly evolving digital landscapes.