What Is Continuous Delivery?
Continuous delivery is a software development practice where code changes are automatically prepared for a release to production. Read on to learn more!
Continuous delivery is a software development practice where code changes are automatically prepared for a release to production. Read on to learn more!
Continuous delivery ensures that every code change is ready to be deployed to production, adding significant safety and speed to DevOps organizations and shortening the time to get new features into the hands of users. Similarly, continuous integration makes it possible for multiple devs to work together on the same project by keeping the main code branch up-to-date and minimizing code conflicts. However, continuous integration has more limitations than continuous delivery. Check out our post about continuous delivery vs continuous integration to learn more.
The goal of continuous delivery is the ability to rapidly introduce new features into the hands of users in a sustainable way. To that end, there are a few common elements that make up continuous delivery and its contribution to the SDLC.
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