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The 3 Ds of CD: Defining CD and Why It Matters to the Business

TNS owner Insight Partners is an investor in Armory. In a previous article about the ABCs of CD, we talked about the different ways stakeholders — ranging from developers to SREs, operations teams and even business leaders — define continuous delivery.

CD is a powerful concept that can, in fact, offer all these things to all these people.

The “C” in CD stands for “continuous,” which in practice usually means “as often as possible.”

Continuous delivery, our second definition of CD, entails automatically promoting an application between environments just like in continuous deployment, as well as automating some or all decision-making about whether to promote builds.