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What is Continuous Deployment?

A practice where every code change that passes automated tests is automatically deployed to production.

Continuous Deployment is the final stage of CI/CD automation. After code passes all automated tests (unit, integration, end-to-end), it is automatically released to production without human intervention.

This requires comprehensive test coverage, feature flags (to control feature rollout), monitoring and rollback capabilities, and confidence in the automated pipeline. Companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Etsy deploy hundreds of times per day using continuous deployment.

Related Terms

Makefile
A file containing build rules and commands that automates compilation and common project tasks using the make utility.
CI/CD
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment — automated practices for building, testing, and deploying code changes.
Trunk-Based Development
A source control strategy where developers integrate small changes directly into the main branch frequently, often multiple times per day.
Pipeline as Code
Defining CI/CD pipeline configurations as version-controlled code files rather than through UI-based pipeline builders.
Health Check
An endpoint or mechanism that reports whether an application is running correctly and ready to handle requests.
Packer
A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single configuration file.
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