An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
What does the ‘D’ in ‘CI/CD’ stand for? Does the phrase mean ‘continuous integration/continuous delivery’ or ‘continuous integration/continuous deployment’?
It depends. ‘Delivery’ in this context means that the dev team is ready and able to deploy. ‘Deployment’ is the act of deploying code into some environment.
However, even when ‘D’ means ‘deployment’ in the CI/CD context, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the team is deploying code into production, as it may deploy into a test or staging environment instead.
The missing element that connects CI/CD, and devops broadly, to the customer: release. To this end, Vamp offers release orchestration for devops that ensures that end-users successfully interact with deployed code in production – code that actually handles production traffic.
Vamp offers fully automated releases, including A/B testing, fine-grained segmentation, and multi-tenant releases. It leverages both SRE and business metrics from production traffic to provide continuous validation, ensuring released code meets requirements on a continual basis.
Vamp is also cloud-native, leveraging Kubernetes-based environments to provide release orchestration for applications that consist of large numbers of ephemeral microservices.
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