Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery builds upon Continuous Integration techniques and platforms to provide repeatable, easy and fast deployments to production.
Continuous Integration as a platform enables a rapid feedback response as features are completed, checked in to version control, built into binaries and a suite of automated tests are run against them to determine if there are any issues.
Continuous Delivery extends the feedback cycle to also include shipping the feature when it is done providing a rolling horizon of working changes into production, with a side benefit of providing rapid customer feedback as well as facilitating customer testing options such as A|B testing for example.
Delivery Pipeline
A delivery pipeline is intended to be an automated mechanism for "...getting software from version control into the hands of your users."[1] A pipeline usually has monitoring and a push button interface to enable builds to be constructed and then deployed to environments, culminating in a deployment to production.
The intention
See Also
References
- Continuous Delivery, Humble J, Farley D, 2011