What is the difference between Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment?

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Admin Staff asked 5 years ago

What is the difference between Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment?

A) Continuous Delivery is a manual task, while Continuous Deployment is an automated task

B) Continuous Delivery has a manual release to a production decision, while Continuous Deployment has releases automatically pushed to production.

C) Continuous Delivery includes all steps of the software development life cycle, Continuous deployment may skip a few steps such as validation and testing.

D) Continuous Delivery means complete delivery of the application to the customer, Continuous Deployment includes the only deployment of the application in a customer environment.

1 Answers
Admin Staff answered 5 years ago

B) Continuous Delivery has a manual release to a production decision, while Continuous Deployment has releases automatically pushed to production.