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CICD Intro
A CI/CD pipeline is a development practice focused on one core goal:
Ship high-quality features to production faster and more reliably.
Without CI/CD, every step in the software lifecycle is manual: building code, running tests, and deploying changes. This slows teams down and introduces human error.
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What Happens Without CI/CD?
- Developers manually trigger builds
- Testing is inconsistent or delayed
- Deployments are error-prone
- Releases take longer and break more often
CI/CD fixes this by automating the entire flow.
Continuous Integration (CI)
- Automatically builds and tests code whenever changes are pushed to a shared repository
- Detects issues early before they reach production
- Ensures new code doesn’t break existing functionality
Keep the codebase stable at all times
Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Automatically deploys validated code to staging or testing environments
- Production deployment is still a manual decision
Always be ready to release.
Continuous Deployment
- Extends Continuous Delivery
- Every successful change is automatically deployed to production
Remove manual steps and release continuously.
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