Chapter 2 - Continuous Delivery Platform

Continuous Delivery (CD) is the practice of using automation to produce releasable software in short iterations, allowing teams to ship working software more frequently. The recent emphasis on continuous integration, built-in testing, constant monitoring, and analytics feedback all point toward an overall trend in the software industry: increasing the ability to react. As organizations explore what these changes mean for them, they invariably discover continuous delivery.

If your tests are run constantly, and you trust your tests to provide a guarantee of quality, then it becomes possible to release your software at any point in time. Continuous delivery doesn't always mean delivering, it represents a philosophy and a commitment to ensuring that your code is always in a release-ready state.