Chapter 14

1. Continuous delivery is a natural extension of continuous integration, where each set of changes is not only integrated into a central repository but is ready to be deployed into production after a successful build and test iteration, in a safe, quick, agile, and sustainable way.
2. Continuous deployment is an extension of continuous delivery and includes the release and deployment of the application steps to the end of the automated pipeline.
3. GitHub Actions is tightly integrated into the rest of the GitHub ecosystem.
4. You can initialize a local Git repository by executing the following command: git init -b main.
5. Yes, you can trigger a GitHub Actions workflow manually, provided that you configure it using the workflow_dispatch event.