8Automating Code Deployments with Azure Pipelines
This chapter goes deeper into discussing the continuous deployment and continuous delivery processes in the DevOps life cycle. You will also learn about release pipelines, and you will see how to use this feature to automate your code deployments.
CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT AND CONTINUOUS DELIVERY IN DevOps
Previous chapters covered continuous integration in depth, and you now know that continuous integration involves merging, testing, and building code. The output of continuous integration, which is usually the packaged code, is the input for continuous deployment or continuous delivery. Chapter 5 also defined and introduced continuous deployment and continuous delivery to you, and in this section, you will learn more about these two concepts.
Continuous Deployment
In the continuous deployment methodology, code updates to an application are automatically released into the production environment. A set of predetermined tests serves as the engine for this automation. The automation tools push updates to the production environments immediately after they pass those tests.
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