Sustainable CI/CD

Sustainable CI/CD refers to the practice of integrating sustainability principles into the build, integration, and deployment pipelines to minimize environmental impact. By optimizing resource utilization, leveraging energy-efficient infrastructure, and implementing tools to measure and reduce carbon footprints, organizations can make their software development processes more eco-friendly.

CI/CD definition

CI/CD is a set of practices in software development where code changes are frequently integrated into a shared repository (CI) and automatically tested and deployed to production environments (CD). This process ensures rapid and reliable delivery of software updates and improvements.

Many platforms and tools provide such functionality and it’s outside the scope of this book to thoroughly review all of them. So, in this section, we will focus on how these tools can be leveraged to incorporate sustainable best practices into the build process.

Integrating...