Deployment Pipeline - CI/CD Glossary Definition
A deployment pipeline is the automated path a build takes from a committed change to running in production, passing through stages such as build, test, and release with promotion gates between them.
How it relates to CI/CD
The term comes from the continuous delivery book by Jez Humble and Dave Farley. Each stage acts on the same versioned artifact, so the binary tested in staging is the exact one promoted to production.
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