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Introduction to CI/CD

Introduction to CI/CD

In this lecture, we will learn about the CICD. But before that, we will discuss why we need CICD. So in the early days of software development, the developers deploy the application to the server. Now they have two versions available. One is the development code which is on the local machine, and the other is the production code on the server. Now if the developer implements new features or updates the functionality in the development code, then the changes have to be updated on the server or production as well. So the developer would have to redeploy the entire application, which takes more time and effort of the developer. Not only that, there are chances that some configurations are not done properly, which could cause errors. To overcome this and make the developer's life easier, the CICD pipeline comes into the picture. CI stands for Continuous Integration and the CD stands for Continuous Deployment or Delivery. By using the CICD pipeline, we can automate the deployment process…

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