An introduction to CI/CD
CI/CD is an engineering practice that combines two methods – continuous integration and continuous deployment:
- CI is a method that’s used to automatically integrate code from multiple engineers that collaborate in a repository. Automatic integration can be in the form of testing the code, building Docker images, integration testing, or any other steps that are required to integrate the code.
The main benefit of CI is that you can integrate code changes from many developers as quickly as possible. With this practice, you can detect errors quickly and locate the issues more easily.
- CD is a method that’s used to automatically deploy the final code to the production applications. Automatic deployment can be in the form of pushing the built software to the production server, moving the necessary files to their destination, or any other steps that are required to deploy the final application.
The main benefit of CD is that you...
