What Is Continuous Delivery (CD)? Understand In 200 Words

CD, continuous delivery often contrasts with continuous deployment – both aim to automate the deployment process of software.

CD is one of the key practices of DevOps.

CD is a software release approach where teams release software in short cycles, frequently. It enables building, testing, and releasing of software quickly and efficiently, encouraging ‘continuous change’ and feedback-driven culture.

It’s changing the traditional, time-taking method of releasing software and fosters agility and quality as important benchmarks.

Best CD Tools:

• TeamCity
• Octopus Deploy
• CodeShip
• Ansible
• AWA CodeDeploy
• GitLab
• VSTS

Benefits:

• Faster time-to-market
• Customer-centric, feedback-driven changes in the product
• Improved performance and quality
• Increased customer satisfaction
• Improved team collaboration
• Easier, faster issue tracking and fixing

It can be achieved by setting up a CI/CD pipeline that includes integration, build automation, test automation, and continuous deployments.

Disadvantages of CD:

• Lack of skills and culture
• Lack of test automation and appropriate skills
• Different environments can cause unwanted troubles