When using continuous integration, development teams write code, which, after a code review, gets integrated into a version control system, from where it is built and tested automatically. This normally happens multiple times a day. Thus, a development team can detect problems and bugs quickly and fix them as early as possible, enabling what is commonly called Fail Fast.
Continuous deployment is a natural extension of continuous integration, since it assures that every application modification after being built and tested is releasable. It consists of automatically upgrading development, testing, staging, and production systems.
A pipeline defines a complete development and release workflow. It contains all of the steps required for conception, development, quality assurance, and testing,...
