CI/CD stands for:
CI: Continuous Integration
CD: Continuous Delivery
It sounds technical, but at its heart, CI/CD is just a smarter way to build and ship software, step by step, with less risk and more reliability.
Let’s say you have a team of developers working on the same project. Without CI, each person writes code on their own computer, and only combines it at the end. That’s risky.
With Continuous Integration, every time a developer makes a change, it’s sent to a shared system that:
Once code is tested and working, we want to get it into the hands of users — but safely. Continuous Delivery is the process of preparing code so it’s always ready to launch.