Using push and pull principles in CI/CD
CI/CD pipelines work with branches, although other terms can be used for this. The master branch is sometimes referred to as a mainline or, when teams work in GCP, as a trunk. The most important principle to remember is that a development team has one master branch or mainline. Next, there are two ways of pushing new code to that master branch. These two methods are described in the following sections.
Pushing the code directly to the master
In this method, the developers work directly in the master code; they change small pieces of the code and merge these directly back into the master branch. Pushing code back to the master is called a commit. These commits are done several times per day, or at least as soon as possible. Working in this way ensures that releases can be done very frequently, as opposed to working in code forks that result in separate or feature branches, which are described in the second method. The following diagram...
