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Benefits of continuous delivery

CD provides numerous benefits for your software development team including automating the process, improving developer productivity, improving code quality, and delivering updates to your customers faster.

Automate the software release process

CD provides a method for your team to check in code that is automatically built, tested, and prepared for release to production so that your software delivery is efficient, resilient, rapid, and secure.

Improve developer productivity

CD practices help your team’s productivity by freeing developers from manual tasks, untangling complex dependencies, and returning focus to delivering new features in software. Instead of integrating their code with other parts of the business and spending cycles on how to deploy this code to a platform, developers can focus on coding logic that delivers the features you need.

Improve code quality

CD can help you discover and address bugs early in the delivery process before they grow into larger problems later. Your team can easily perform additional types of code tests because the entire process has been automated. With the discipline of more testing more frequently, teams can iterate faster with immediate feedback on the impact of changes. This enables teams to drive quality code with a high assurance of stability and security. Developers will know through immediate feedback whether the new code works and whether any breaking changes or bugs were introduced. Mistakes caught early on in the development process are the easiest to fix.

Deliver updates faster

CD helps your team deliver updates to customers quickly and frequently. When CI/CD is implemented, the velocity of the entire team, including the release of features and bug fixes, is increased. Enterprises can respond faster to market changes, security challenges, customer needs, and cost pressures. For example, if a new security feature is required, your team can implement CI/CD with automated testing to introduce the fix quickly and reliably to production systems with high confidence. What used to take weeks and months can now be done in days or even hours.