CD (Continuous Delivery)

See also

Martin Fowler Définition (2013-05)

Continuous Delivery is a software development discipline where you build software in such a way that the software can be released to production at any time.

You’re doing continuous delivery when:

  • Your software is deployable throughout its lifecycle

  • Your team prioritizes keeping the software deployable over working on new features

  • Anybody can get fast, automated feedback on the production readiness of their systems any time somebody makes a change to them

  • You can perform push-button deployments of any version of the software to any environment on demand

You achieve continuous delivery by continuously integrating the software done by the development team, building executables, and running automated tests on those executables to detect problems.

Furthermore you push the executables into increasingly production-like environments to ensure the software will work in production.

To do this you use a DeploymentPipeline.