As Seth Godin knows opportunity cost just went up. Building and delivering software is getting more complicated, so keep your human mind free to focus on the interesting bits and leave the boring, repetitive stuff to the machines.
What’s the best way to do this? Build your CD pipeline first, setup the infrastructure (preferably serverless) from the start and then get into the flow of development. Add more checks and balances as you go. Run automated tests. Deploy to the cloud.