From the course: Continuous Delivery with Azure DevOps

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Release pipelines basics

Release pipelines basics

- [Instructor] Let's move on to continuous delivery. What exactly is continuous delivery, or what we call CD? That's the CD part of CI/CD. Continuous delivery is the process to build, test, configure, and deploy from a build to a production environment, so think about that for a second when we talk to teams about continuous delivery. A lot of teams are saying, yeah, we deliver to Dev, we deliver to QA, so we're doing continuous delivery. If we read this correctly and we follow it, it means we are building, we are testing, we are configuring, and deploying from the build to the production environment, so it's really important to remember that we're going all the way out to the production environment. We are not stopping at QA or pre-prod, or some staging environment, but going all the way out into production. We're delivering the value to our end-users. If you remember when we talked about DevOps at the beginning of the course, about delivering that continuous value to our customers…

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