The delivery pipeline, or deployment pipeline, refers to the sequence of automated processes that manage the build, test, and release process for your project. The term was popularized by the book Continuous Delivery, which says:
A deployment pipeline is, in essence, an automated implementation of your application’s build, deploy, test, and release process. … Every change that is made to an application’s configuration, source code, environment, or data, triggers the creation of a new instance of the pipeline. … The aim of the deployment pipeline is threefold. First, it makes every part of ...
