Continuous Delivery
What Is Continuous Delivery?
Continuous Delivery is the practice of keeping software in a deployable state at all times. Teams achieve this by automating build, test, packaging, and release preparation steps so that validated changes can be released safely when the business chooses.
Why Continuous Delivery Matters
Continuous Delivery helps organizations:
- reduce release risk by validating changes continuously,
- release more predictably with repeatable workflows,
- shorten time from code to customer value,
- avoid large, high-risk release batches.
How Continuous Delivery Works
In a CD model, every change should move through a standard pipeline that verifies quality before release. Production deployment may still require an explicit business decision or approval step. That is the key distinction from continuous deployment, where validated changes are released automatically.
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