The process of delivery release to users consists of important steps, and we can sometimes pass these steps with a manual process. The world is moving on apace, and so the delivery of a release needs to be swift as well. With this in mind, automating processes is a great solution for increasing the speed of release delivery; continuous deployment was therefore created as an evolution of continuous delivery, which itself is an evolution of continuous integration.
Continuous deployment is a deployment pattern that creates a pipeline where each step is executed through an automated process. All steps are then executed without human intervention. If a new release enters the pipeline, all steps will be executed automatically unless an error occurs. It is important to know that continuous deployment is not continuous delivery or continuous integration—although these deployment patterns have many similarities, they are all different. The main difference...