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Continuous Delivery and Deployment
Release software automatically and safely.
📖 Key ideas
- Continuous Delivery: every change is releasable; deploy with a click.
- Continuous Deployment: every passing change goes to production automatically.
- Promote artefacts through environments: dev → staging → production.
- Build once, deploy the same artefact everywhere.
- Approvals and checks protect production.
💡 Real-life example: Continuous delivery keeps the train ready at the platform; continuous deployment departs automatically.
Continuous DeliveryAlways ready to release
Continuous DeploymentAutomatic release to production
ArtefactBuilt output like an image or JAR
EnvironmentStage like staging or production