What is meant by continuous automatic delivery of code changes to the production environment?

Continuous Delivery (CD) is a development practice where code changes automatically pass through all testing and staging phases and are ready for deployment in the production environment at any moment. This means that after passing all checks, a new version of the application can be released quickly and without manual intervention.

Main characteristics:

• Automation of build, testing, and release preparation.
• Ability to release new versions frequently.
• Minimization of risks through small changes.

Example: after a commit to the repository, a pipeline automatically runs, which builds the application, runs tests, and if all are successful, prepares artifacts for deployment.