Continuous Delivery

In the research paper titled “Continuous Deployment at Facebook and OANDA,” Facebook engineers and researchers published a study identifying the key elements needed by organizations to adopt and make viable continuous deployments processes.

CD is the process of taking an artifact throughout the various steps necessary for it to be deployed to customers into production. Once an artifact is ready for deployment, you need to take it through these six phases. Don’t get too confused by this; we’ll come back to this later.