What is a CI/CD pipeline?
The CI/CD pipeline is the backbone of modern software practices, ensuring that software is always improving, with changes smoothly integrated and swiftly delivered to users. It’s all about making sure your “scrapbook” remains neat, beautiful, and always ready to be shown off!
Imagine you’re creating a scrapbook. Every time you get new photos, stickers, or materials, you want to add them to your scrapbook and make sure they fit well without spoiling the previous pages.
CI/CD is a bit like this process for software development, ensuring every change fits well and gets neatly integrated into the bigger picture.
CI
CI is the process of continuously adding (or integrating) new changes in code to the main project. Every time you get a new photo (code change), you try adding it to your scrapbook (main project) to make sure it fits. Without CI, developers might work separately, and when they try to merge their changes, things...