Introduction to CI/CD

Developing an enterprise-level application is easy, but constantly deploying newly developed changes, bug fixes, or features to your users is a daunting process, especially if done frequently, and especially for enterprise-ready applications. In addition, as your application, teams, and deployment infrastructure grows in complexity, continuously releasing and deploying new changes, features, and products to customers can be a complicated process.

To solve the complicated process of developing, testing, and releasing software quickly and consistently, three related but distinct strategies have been created by developers and organizations to manage and automate these processes.

In the next section, we will explore these three pillars, called CI/CD, and explain each of these strategies and how they relate to each other. Most importantly, we will explore how to build and incorporate these strategies into our enterprise application life cycle so that it can transform...