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CI vs CD (Clearly Explained)

Many beginners say:

“We have CI/CD.”

But don’t know which part is broken

  • Continuous Integration (CI)

CI answers one question:
Is this code safe to merge?

CI includes:

Automated builds

Unit & integration tests

Linting & static checks

Weak CI = broken pipelines later.

  • Continuous Delivery (CD)

CD answers:
Can we deploy safely right now?

CD focuses on:

Environment consistency

Deployment automation

Rollback readiness

Continuous Deployment

This is optional, not mandatory.
Only mature teams use it safely.

At InfraForgeLabs, CI is built first, hardened second — then CD is introduced.

Because speed without quality is chaos.

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