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Discussion on: What's the difference: Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment.

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David J Eddy

The first two sound reasonable; the third one requires an approval process. Assuming this is a manual process it runs counter to the name. Continuous is without interruption, wherein your example (if indeed a manual approval) would not be.

This is one of the challenges for the DevOps community. How to clearly and sharply define terms, concepts, and goals such that the community accepts them and the business stakeholders can conceptualize them.

I do like the concept of assaulting the the change set to the test and quality checks BEFORE being merged into a target remote branch. Works well with 'branch often' workflows. With a little alteration it would probably work well in a 'trunk' centric flow as well.

Thank you for the input Jefry. I love talking tech. MEssage me some time.