Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Continuous delivery or deployment

Continuous Delivery or Deployment (CD) is a natural extension or offshoot of the CI process, taking each successful build, collecting all of the components involved, and either deploying it directly (typically for web and cloud-resident applications and systems), or taking whatever steps would be necessary to make the new build available for deployment—creating a final, end user or production-ready installation package, for example—but not actually deploying it.

A complete CD process will allow for the creation, update, or recreation of a production system based solely on information in a source control system. It also likely involves some Configuration Management and Release Management tools at the system ...