What is CI/CD?
In software engineering, CI/CD or CICD is the combined practices of continuous integration (CI) and either continuous delivery or continuous deployment (CD).
CI/CD bridges the gaps between development and operation activities and teams by enforcing automation in building, testing and deployment of applications. The process contrasts with traditional methods where all updates. Were integrated into one large batch before rolling out the newer version. Modern day DevOps practices involve continuous development, continuous testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous monitoring. In addition, of software applications throughout its development life cycle.
The CI/CD practice, or CI/CD pipeline, forms the backbone of modern day DevOps operations.
Difference between CI and CD:
- Continuous Integration – development in a separate branch from the working code. After changes merged into the main branch. Build and test – done automatically. The rest of the deployment – done manually.
- Continuous Delivery – CI + automated release build process. Deployment to production – done manually.
- Continuous Deployment – CI + CD + automatic deployment process to a productive environment.
What is CI/CD used for?
In short, in simple words, CI / CD (Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery) is a technology for automating testing and delivering new modules of a project under development to stakeholders (developers, analysts, quality engineers, end-users, etc.).
Basic principles of CI / CD – segregation of stakeholder responsibilities. Participants in the development process and consumers of the finished project share the responsibility for one or another stage of the product life cycle. Developers and designers design business logic and also provide a positive user experience with the finished system. Moreover, quality engineers introduce end-to-end features and acceptance tests. Moreover, DevOps engineers organize the logistics of the code. And users provide feedback on the results of using the system.
