Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery

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 ...