Understanding the relationship between continuous integration, continuous delivery, and pipelines

As organizations adopt a cloud strategy, they realize the benefits of automating the build, test steps, and deployment steps. By automating the entire software delivery process, organizations can deliver software faster and with more confidence while reducing the risk of errors.

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are practices that have evolved from Agile software development and DevOps culture that involve automatically building and testing code changes as soon as they are pushed to a source control repository, such as Git.

This helps catch and fix issues early in the development process, reducing the risk of more significant problems later on. They emerged in response to the need for faster and more reliable software delivery in a rapidly changing software development landscape.

As Agile and DevOps practices gained popularity, CI and CD became widely adopted...