Now that we have a cluster and the third-party applications running in the production environment, we can turn our attention towards defining a continuous delivery pipeline.
Before we proceed, we'll recap the definitions of continuous deployment and continuous delivery.
Continuous deployment is a fully automated process that executes a set of steps with the goal of converting each commit to the master branch into a fully tested release deployed to production.
Continuous delivery is almost a fully automated process that executes a set of steps with the goal of converting each commit to the master branch into a fully tested release that is ready to be deployed to production. We (humans) retain the ability to choose which of the production-ready releases will be deployed to production and when is that deployment going to happen.
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