#deployment

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.”

A set of practices, tools, and cultural philosophies that unite software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) teams. DevOps breaks down silos, automates repetitive tasks, and instills shared responsibility for the full software lifecycle from code to production monitoring.

“After adopting DevOps, their release cycle went from monthly to daily.”

The act of running a trained machine learning model on new input data to generate predictions or outputs. Inference is distinct from training — it is the "serving" phase where the model is used in production, and its speed and cost are critical for real-world applications.

“Inference latency dropped from 2 seconds to 200ms after switching to a quantized model.”

Pull-Based Deployment is a GitOps term for a deployment model where an in-cluster agent pulls desired state from source. 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: OpenGitOps principles; Flux documentation.

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

Push-Based Deployment is a GitOps term for a deployment model where an outside system pushes changes into the runtime. 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: OpenGitOps principles.

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