What is CI/CD? — A 30,000 foot view

George Alonge
5 min readMay 22, 2022

“You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative” — Walter Lippmann.

CI/CD is an acronym for continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment). There are many definitions for what it means, but below is a definition i particularly like and think covers the basics of the concept of CI/CD.

CI/CD is the practice of automating your software release process from the point of development all the way to deployment or at-least to the point at…

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George Alonge

Google Cloud Architect | SRE | DevOps | Scalability | Performance