What is CI/CD? Continuous Integration and Deployment Explained
Understand the pipeline that takes your code from a local commit to a live production deployment — automatically.
You just finished a feature. It works on your machine. You push the code to GitHub. And then... what? Someone has to review it, run the tests, build the project, deploy it to a server, and hope nothing breaks along the way.
If that process involves you manually running commands, copying files, or SSHing into a server — you're doing it the hard way. And the hard way doesn't scale. The hard way breaks at 2 AM on a Friday when you accidentally deploy the wrong branch.
CI/CD exists to automate everything between your git push and your users seeing the new feature. It's the assembly line of modern software development.
Breaking Down the Acronym
CI/CD is actually two related concepts that work together:
Continuous Integration (CI)
Continuous Integration is the practice of automat
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