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Pierluigi RitiPro DevOps with Google Cloud Platformhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3897-4_3

3. Introduction to Continuous Integration and Delivery

Pierluigi Riti1 
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Mullingar, Westmeath, Ireland
 

Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) grow in popularity every day. This is because they are crucial to reducing time to market and improving the quality of software.

With the practice of CI and CD, every time we release software from a central repository, it is built and released to test. This represents hundreds of deliveries every day. CI and CD are strictly connected, and one is an extension of the other. Both practices have some associated costs and savings. In this chapter, I introduce CI and CD and try to ...

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