CI/CD (CI/CD)

The holy grail of modern software delivery. CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (or Deployment, depending on who you ask and how brave they are).

Continuous Integration means developers merge code changes frequently, and each merge triggers an automated build and test run. No more “integration Fridays” where everything breaks.

Continuous Delivery means your code is always in a deployable state. Continuous Deployment takes it further — every passing change goes straight to production. Yes, automatically. Yes, it’s terrifying at first.

Why it matters: CI/CD is the backbone of DevOps. Without it, you’re just doing Dev and Ops separately with extra meetings.