Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
Explore the fundamentals of Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and Continuous Deployment, essential DevOps practices that automate code integration, testing, and deployment. Understand how these methods reduce integration costs, improve deployment frequency, and enable reliable delivery of software in cloud environments.
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With the rise of DevOps has come the new methods of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, (CI/CD), and Continuous Deployment.
As discussed in the previous topic conventional software development and delivery methods are rapidly becoming obsolete. Historically, in the agile age, most companies would deploy/ship software in monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, or even annual releases. Now, however, in the DevOps era, weekly, daily, and even multiple times a day is the norm.
With the DevOps paradigm shift, most teams have automated processes to check-in code and deploy to new environments. This has been coupled with a focus on automating the process along the way.
Continuous Integration (CI)
With continuous integration, developers frequently integrate their code into the main branch of a common repository. Rather than building features in isolation and submitting each of them at the end of the cycle, a developer will strive to contribute software work products to the repository ...