Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are software development practices that aim to improve the development and delivery process.
Continuous Integration (CI): Involves automatically integrating code changes from multiple contributors into a shared repository multiple times a day. This helps to detect and fix integration issues early.
Continuous Delivery (CD): Takes CI a step further by automatically delivering code changes to production-like environments. The goal is to ensure that the code is always in a deployable state.
Illustration of a typical CI/CD pipeline showing stages such as code integration, automated testing, deployment, and monitoring.