Continuous integration or continuous delivery? Or both? It’s a question many IT teams are asking themselves. What are the key differences between each method and which will improve your processes so you deliver higher quality software to your end users in less time?
Both continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) embody the culture and principles of development in a fast-paced marketplace, speeding up and automating the software delivery lifecycle. And both share the same goal: make software development less dependent on manual tasks and releases more frequent, reliable and robust. With such overlap, CI and CD are not mutually exclusive. Yet, they are different as it relates to the scope of automation applied.