Demo: Implementing Manual Approval for Production Deployment

The two terms continuous delivery and continuous deployment are often used interchangeably in DevOps. Though they sound similar, there is a subtle difference between them. Continuous delivery involves manual approval before deploying the artifacts to production.

Release pipeline structure

In this lesson, we'll add two more stages to the release pipeline:

• An approval stage will check the staging server, validate the application, and approve or reject the release.

• A production deployment stage will deploy to production servers if the release is approved.