Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment

Question

What\'s the difference between these three terms? My university provides the following definitions:

Continuous Integration basically just means that

Answer 1

Atlassian posted a good explanation about Continuous integration vs. continuous delivery vs. continuous deployment.

In a nutshell:

Continuous Integration - is an automation to build and test application whenever new commits are pushed into the branch.

Continuous Delivery - is Continuous Integration + Deploy application to production by "clicking on a button" (Release to customers is often, but on demand).

Continuous Deployment - is Continuous Delivery but without human intervention (Release to customers is on-going).