CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (or Continuous Deployment). It represents best practices in two crucial areas of modern cloud application development:

• Continuous Integration: This involves the ongoing automated building and testing of software to ensure that the project is consistently ready for production deployment.
• Continuous Delivery: This entails confidently deploying new software versions to production through automated infrastructure setup, code packaging, and a series of automated tests, thereby ensuring near-perfect uptime and rapid recovery in case of failures.

CI/CD encompasses a set of practices that enable large developer teams to collaborate efficiently without impeding progress. It facilitates the seamless integration of development teams with operations teams responsible for deploying and managing infrastructure. CI/CD is a cornerstone of the DevOps philosophy, promoting fast feedback loops and enhancing speed and agility in delivering new functionalities to customers.

By adhering to the best practices outlined in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, teams can readily adapt to changes. When integrating a new architecture, such as Ampere-powered Arm64 infrastructure, CI/CD simplifies the process, allowing organizations to fully leverage the advantages of this new architecture without a burdensome adoption and migration experience.

• Ampere Developer Summit: Making the Change https://amperecomputing.com/blogs/developer-summit-part-4
• CNCF triggers a Platform Parity Breakthrough for Arm64 and x86: https://amperecomputing.com/assets/developer_story_cncf_3dcfd979d0.pdf
• Jenkins and Ampere: The Backbone of Modern CI/CD Pipelines https://amperecomputing.com/blogs/backbone-of-modern-ci-cd-pipelines