CI/CD

How it is used

Said letter by letter, 'C-I-C-D'; the slash is not pronounced. It often works like an adjective: CI/CD pipeline, CI/CD tool, CI/CD setup. 'CI' alone usually means the automated build and test part.

Example sentences

1. We set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions, so every merge to main goes to staging automatically.

2. Without a CI/CD pipeline, every release took us a full day of manual work.

Common collocations

• CI/CD pipeline
• set up CI/CD
• CI/CD tool
• CI/CD workflow

Related terms

• continuous integrationThe practice of merging small code changes into the shared main branch often, with each change automatically built and tested so problems are found early.
• continuous deliveryThe practice of keeping code always ready to release, so that any tested version can go to production at the push of a button.
• pipelineAn automated series of steps, such as building, testing and deploying, that runs every time code changes and stops if one step fails.
• DevOpsA way of working in which developers and operations engineers share responsibility for building, releasing and running software, using automation to deliver changes quickly and safely.
• buildThe process of turning source code into something that can run, such as a binary or container image, usually followed by automated tests. Also the result of that process.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• CI/CD · Software Engineering

More terms: DevOps and CI/CD

• deploy
• deployment
• environment
• production
• staging
• rollback
• artifact
• blue-green deployment
• canary release
• feature flag
• roll out