A CI/CD pipeline, which stands for continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment, is a series of steps that software development teams use to automate the process of integrating changes and deploying software. It is designed to increase deployment frequency and improve software quality through automation and consistency.

This is the meaning of each component of the CI/CD pipeline:

Continuous Integration (CI): This practice involves regularly integrating all developers' working copies into a common master, such as a Git repository. Each change is automatically built and tested, allowing teams to identify problems early. The main goal of CI is to eliminate the problems associated with "integration hell" that often arise when developers work in isolation and then try to integrate their changes all at once.

Continuous Delivery: Continuous delivery extends CI by ensuring that software is ready to be released at any time. It automates all phases of the software delivery process, from integration to testing to staging for release. However, the final decision to deploy to production is usually made manually in continuous delivery.

Continuous deployment: This approach goes a step further than continuous deployment. Any change that passes the automated testing phase is automatically pushed to production. There is no human intervention, and only a failed test prevents a new change from being deployed to production.

CI/CD pipelines have become an essential part of modern software development as they streamline and improve the development process, enabling faster and more reliable deployments.

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