This document discusses DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and the Concourse platform. It begins with an introduction of the author and their background. The rest of the document is organized into the following sections: definitions of DevOps and CI/CD; the benefits of CI/CD; examples of assessment models and gap analyses; the author's first pipeline from 2012 and their theory of three layers for full stack pipelines; an overview of how Pivotal solves these challenges; why to use Concourse for CI/CD including its concepts of resources, jobs, and tasks; and a demo of a Build-Test-Deploy pipeline in Concourse from GIT to AWS to Cloud Foundry. It concludes with instructions for getting started with Con