DevOps (“development” and “operations”) is the combination of practices and tools designed to increase an
organization's ability to deliver applications and services faster than traditional software development processes.
Devops is an approach for developing and delivering software faster than traditional development processes by automating tasks.
CI/CD means continous integration and continous delivery or deployment . It is a devops process to automate software delivery by automating tasks like build-test and deploy.
- Continous Integration:is the practice of automating the integration of code changes from multiple developers into a single codebase. It helps to find and address bugs quicker, make the process of integrating code across a team of developers easier, improve software quality, and reduce the time it takes to release new feature updates.
- Continous Delivery: the process of automating build, test, configuration, and deployment from a build to a production environment. It is a process to make sure that software is ready and can be released any time.
- Continous Deployment: is a software development practice that refers to the automated deployment of code changes to production.
A pipeline is a set of automated processes and tools that the development and operations teams use to compile, construct, test, and deploy software code faster and easier A pipeline consists of a set of tools which are classified into the following categories such as:
- Source control
- Build tools
- Containerization
- Configuration management
- Monitoring