#automation

Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery — a set of software engineering practices and tools that automate the process of testing, building, and deploying code changes. CI automatically validates every commit; CD deploys validated code to production frequently and reliably without manual intervention.

“The team ships 20 times a day safely because their CI/CD pipeline catches regressions automatically.”

The coordination and sequencing of multiple AI agents, services, or steps in an automated workflow. An orchestrator determines which tools to invoke, in what order, and how to pass outputs between steps to complete a complex task end-to-end.

“The orchestration layer decided to call the search tool before invoking the summarization agent.”

Self-Heal is a GitOps term for automatic correction when live state drifts away from source state. It helps teams, humans, and agents compare declared source state with running systems, then act without pretending a deployment did more than the evidence shows. Source context: Argo CD documentation.

“The team used Self-Heal before lunch, so the release did not sprint into production wearing untied shoes.”