Continuous Delivery and deployment overview

Continuous Delivery and deployment are a natural extension of the continuous integration process. Continuous Delivery and deployment create a consistent mechanism to deploy changes to production and create a conveyer belt delivering new features to customers or end users. So conceptually a conveyer belt is what continuous Delivery is all about, but in terms of actual process how is this achieved?

A continuous integration process will carry out the following high level steps:

  • Commit
  • Build (Compile/Version/Tag)
  • Validate
  • Package
  • Push

Continuous Delivery and deployment take over once the artifact has been pushed to the artifact repository. Each and every build artifact created by a continuous integration process ...

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