I (try to) do CD as part of my day job and found this slide-deck and video helpful in that it is from a practitioner, Daniel Bryant, that is working with Java applications. A key insight is that "container images become the build pipeline 'single binary'"

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/opencredo/oreilly-2016-continuous-...

Youtube: https://youtu.be/xfTAcNzV5EY