Continuous delivery options

When deploying anything to production, we should think about making sure to remove uncertain factors. For example, if we are deploying from our own machine, how do we know it’s the latest version? How do we know that our teammates didn’t recently solve a problem and we don’t have the fix in our branch? To be honest, how do we even know that the version in source control is the same in production, or if the version in production even exists in source control? You know the old saying: “Friends don’t let friends right-click and publish” (to production, that is)?

This is where Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) come into the picture. We make sure that something else makes the deployment to production. Entire books could be written on deployment, so we won’t go that deep into the subject.

GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps (or Azure Pipelines) are two products from Microsoft...