Java EE 8 Design Patterns and Best Practices

Explaining the concept of continuous deployment

The process of delivery release to users consists of important steps, and we can sometimes pass these steps with a manual process. The world is moving on apace, and so the delivery of a release needs to be swift as well. With this in mind, automating processes is a great solution for increasing the speed of release delivery; continuous deployment was therefore created as an evolution of continuous delivery, which itself is an evolution of continuous integration. 

Continuous deployment is a deployment pattern that creates a pipeline where each step is executed through an automated process. All steps are then executed without human intervention. If a new release enters the pipeline, all steps ...