Continuous delivery is the extension of Continuous Integration practices. Application artifacts are production-ready in automated fashion but not deployed in production. Continuous deployment is the extension of continuous delivery, where changes in the application are finally deployed in production. Continuous delivery is a must for DevOps practices. Let's understand how to deploy application artifacts using Jenkins in the following sections.
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For more details on continuous delivery and continuous deployment, visit:
http://continuousdelivery.com/2010/08/continuous-delivery-vs-continuous-deployment/