CD

Continuous Delivery or Continuous Deployment

Both are crucial practices in modern software development and operations, but they have distinct meanings:

1. Continuous Delivery: This software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring it can be reliably released at any time. Continuous Delivery aims to make deployments predictable and routine affairs that can be performed on demand. It involves the automation of testing and deployment processes, ensuring that the software is always in a deployable state throughout its lifecycle.
2. Continuous Deployment: This is a step beyond Continuous Delivery. Every change that passes all stages of your production pipeline is released to your customers. There’s no human intervention in this process; only a failed test will prevent a new change from being deployed to production.

Both Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment are key components of DevOps practices. They enable organizations to accelerate time to market, improve product quality, and optimize resource allocation by automating software release processes.

• Abbreviation: CD

Additional Acronyms for CD

• CD - Compact Disc