Do you know the difference between continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment?

Probably every common agile developer has heard these terms. But have you ever thought about the difference between them. I have really been wondering about this question and after some investigation I would like to share all information on this topic i have gathered.

To be able to understand continuous deployment it can be helpful to define its predecessors first – continuous integration and continuous delivery. Continuous integration (CI) usually refers to integrating, building and testing code within an integration environment. It assumes frequent integration of developers code into a shared repository, at least once a day. This makes sure that the local version of every individual developer doesn’t differ too much. Weiterlesen