Short for continuous integration: every change is built and tested automatically, normally paired with continuous deployment as CI/CD. A pipeline running az acr build then pushing the resulting image is one example.
Also called continuous integration.
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Terms in this definition
- CD
Practice of releasing every change automatically, such as an ACR webhook that redeploys a containerised web app when a new image is pushed.
- CI/CD
Pipelines, for example in Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions, that build, test and deploy code automatically; short for continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Pipeline
Groups activities logically so that, together, they move and transform data, either one after another or side by side; found in both Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Fabric.
- az acr build
Azure CLI command for an ACR quick task, which sends the build context to Azure, builds the image there and pushes the result into a registry that already exists.