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Continuous delivery

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, continuous delivery means: The practice of keeping code always ready to release, so that any tested version can go to production at the push of a button.

In Turkish: sürekli teslim, sürekli teslimat, CD

How it is used

Shortened to CD, together with CI in 'CI/CD'. In continuous delivery a person still approves the final production step; in continuous deployment that step is automatic too.

Example sentences

  1. With continuous delivery, releasing is a business decision, not a technical project.

  2. We practise continuous delivery, but a product manager approves each production release.

Common collocations

  • practise continuous delivery
  • continuous delivery pipeline
  • continuous deployment
  • 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.
  • CI/CDShort for continuous integration and continuous delivery (or deployment): automatically building and testing every change, then releasing it quickly and safely.
  • pipelineAn automated series of steps, such as building, testing and deploying, that runs every time code changes and stops if one step fails.
  • deployTo put a new version of software onto servers or devices so that it starts running there, for example in a test environment or for real users.
  • feature flagA setting that turns a feature on or off without deploying new code, so it can be shown to some users, tested in production or switched off quickly.

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