AEM/CQ5 : introduction to cloud manager, configure CI/CD pipeline & Deployment in Cloud Manager

Statement :

Cloud Manager, part of the Adobe Managed Cloud Services, enables organizations to self-manage Experience Manager in the cloud.
It includes a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) framework.

Using the Cloud Manager self-service customer portal, Organizations can perform/leverage the following:

Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery of code to reduce time to market from months/weeks to days/hours.
Code Inspection, performance testing and security validation based on best practices before pushing to production to minimize production disruptions.
Automatic, scheduled or manual deployment even outside of business hours for maximum flexibility and control.
Autoscaling feature intelligently detects the need for increased capacity and automatically brings online additional Dispatcher/Publish segment(s).

The below image illustrate the CI/CD process flow used in Cloud Manager:

Key Features in Cloud Manger :

Self Service interface :

Helps to manage the cloud environment for the AEM application and CI/CD setup
Helps to define application specific KPI's like peak page views per minute and expected response time for a page load,
Helps to define Roles and permissions for different team members.
URL for cloud manager for self help service : https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/cloud-manager/using/first-time-login.html

CI/CD pipeline

It reduce time to market from months to days for application
Customers can configure and kick off their CI/CD pipeline. During this pipeline, a thorough code scan is executed to ensure that only high-quality applications pass through to the production environment.
helps for easy setup of CI/CD for application code deployment, code inspection ,security validation, security test, performance test and deploy code to Prod through automated, scheduled or manual deployment outside business hours.
CM URL for CI/CD setup :https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/cloud-manager/using/configuring-pipeline.html

Flexible Deployment Modes

Independently of the deployment trigger, quality checks are always performed as part of the CI/CD pipeline execution,
Every time a deployment is triggered. Quality checks include, code inspection, security testing, and performance testing delivered out of the box with literally no effort required from customers or their partners.
The code is automatically deployed to an environment based on specific events such as code commit.
You can also schedule code deployments during specified time frames, even outside business hours.
Cloud Manger URL for https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/cloud-manager/using/deploying-code.html

Auto Scaling

During an autoscaling event, Cloud Manager automatically triggers the autoscaling provisioning process, sends a notification of the autoscaling event, and brings on-line the additional capacity within minutes.
The additional capacity will be provisioned in the production environment, in the same region(s) and matching the same system specifications as the running Dispatcher/Publish nodes.
The autoscaling feature will apply only to the Dispatcher/Publish tier, and will always be executed using a horizontal scaling method,
with a minimum of one additional segment of a Dispatcher/Publish pair, and up to a maximum of ten segments.
Any additional capacity provisioned will be manually scaled-in within a period of ten business days as determined by the CSE (Customer Success Engineer).

Reference URL:

Self Service Cloud Manager Portal :

Deployment setup :