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The real difference between CI and CD

Jean-Paul Delimat on December 01, 2019

There is plenty of content out there describing what Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment are. But what are these ...
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Bernardo Bessa • Edited

One of the most interesting and clearer posts breaking the CI and CD concepts.
Which automated tool would you consider to manage only a CI pipeline? Considering that a lot of tools on the market are able to manage a CI/CD or even just a CD pipeline.

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Jean-Paul Delimat

Thanks for reading. I have actually built a CI platform myself: fire.ci. It focuses only on CI and leverages Docker to run builds in the background of developers laptops. Which makes the "team problem" disappear since each developer brings new computing power.

Now other platforms out there can also be a good fit only for CI. You'll just need to nail the right number of concurrent builds so they don't queue and your team is not stuck waiting tens of minutes for CI feedback.

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Binyamin Green

This is fascinating. Thank you.

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hidden_dude

Very good concise explanation.