Primer

Cloud native application delivery is often referred to as code to cloud and code to production, and we usually automate it with continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines as well as GitOps tools. We’ll talk more about all of this later in the chapter, but for now you should know the major automation steps.

1. Build code
2. Test code
3. Release code

Automating these steps enables fast, frequent, and high-quality releases.

Finally, release is jargon for rolling out a new version of an application or an environment. For example, updating an application from version 1.1 to version 1.2 is accomplished via a release. We often use the terms rollout, update, and release to mean the same thing.