CI/CD
also continuous integration · continuous delivery
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment: automated pipelines that build, test, and release code whenever changes are pushed.
Analogy
Like a conveyor belt that automatically inspects and ships each code change without manual handling.
Why it matters
It automates testing and releasing so your code changes go live reliably without manual deploy steps.
In practice
A push to the main branch triggers a pipeline that runs tests and auto-deploys to production.