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Continuous Integration (CI) is a practice that allows developers to seamlessly merge code in a common repository whereas Continuous Delivery (CD) is a practice that adds a layer to CI by providing multi-stage infrastructure provisioning and deployment which helps in automating the entire software release process.
For Azure data pipelines, CI/CD means nothing but moving data factory pipelines from one environment to another.