Development and Operations (DevOps) is the buzzword in current market trends; it is a practice/approach/methodology/process for continuous software development, testing, integration, deployment, and for managing environments.
In this chapter, we will cover Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) workflows, and also see the difference between Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment. We will explore various types of tool to use in the DevOps process.
CI is the workflow strategy which ensures that everyone's code changes integrate with the current repository; it endeavors to catch bugs and reduce merge conflicts.
Continuous Delivery is the next step after CI, in which developers are developing software in such a way that they can release it at any time. Sometimes people are confused about...
