Chapter 7: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
One of the main pillars of development-operations (DevOps) culture is the implementation of continuous integration (CI) and deployment processes, as we explained in Chapter 1, The DevOps Culture and Infrastructure as Code Practices.
In the previous chapter, we looked at the use of Git with its command lines and usage workflow, and in this chapter, we will look at the important role Git has in the CI/CD workflow.
CI is a process that provides rapid feedback on the consistency and quality of code to all members of a team. It occurs when each user's code commit retrieves and merges the code from a remote repository, compiles it, and tests it.
Continuous delivery (CD) is the automation of the process that deploys an application in different stages (or environments).
In this chapter, we will learn the principles of the CI/CD process as well as its practical use with different tools such as Jenkins, Azure Pipelines...
