--- title: CI/CD Explained in 5 Minutes | daily.dev description: A beginner-friendly walkthrough of the CI/CD pipeline, contrasting the old manual deployment process with the modern automated approach. Covers each stage:... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ci-cd-explained-in-5-minutes-tqlohkopf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: CI/CD Explained in 5 Minutes | daily.dev og:description: A beginner-friendly walkthrough of the CI/CD pipeline, contrasting the old manual deployment process with the modern automated approach. Covers each stage:... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ci-cd-explained-in-5-minutes-tqlohkopf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tqlOhKoPF.png og:image:alt: CI/CD Explained in 5 Minutes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # CI/CD Explained in 5 Minutes **[TechWorld with Nana](https://daily.dev/sources/techworldwithnana)** · 4 min read · 19 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A beginner-friendly walkthrough of the CI/CD pipeline, contrasting the old manual deployment process with the modern automated approach. Covers each stage: code push to GitHub, automated testing, containerization, staging environment validation, and gradual production rollout (canary/percentage-based releases). Explains how CI handles automated testing on every code change while CD handles automated delivery to users, turning risky manual deployments into a repeatable, low-stress process. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the difference between CI and CD in a CI/CD pipeline? CI refers to continuous integration, the automatic testing that runs every time code changes, checking whether new code works and hasn't broken existing functionality. CD refers to continuous delivery, the automatic process of pushing those tested code changes through staging and then to production. Together they replace manual, risky deployments with a repeatable, automated process. _daily.dev keeps developers current on the CI/CD practices behind fast, reliable shipping._ ### Why do some companies roll out new deployments to only 10% of users first? Releasing to a small percentage of users first, sometimes called a canary release, limits the blast radius if a bug slips through automated testing and staging. If a problem appears, only that small group is affected and the team can roll back immediately, rather than breaking the experience for everyone. 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