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What is CI/CD? What is a Pipeline?

Our space is about mobile CI/CD but, let’s start with the basics in this article before going into the details of why mobile CI/CD is actually different than other CI/CD flows in our future articles. This is of course a very simplified definition and CI contains a number of different components, which are like the building blocks that come together to become a workflow.

There are a number of different tools for CI/CD, some of the most popular ones are Jenkins, Travis and CircleCI, but mobile CI/CD requires specialization and in our space, we will be talking more about mobile CI/CD tools like Appcircle and Bitrise.

With all CI/CD components are in place and connected together in an automated manner, they form an application pipeline.

CI is mainly responsible for processing the contents of the pipeline and CD is mainly responsible for directing the contents of the pipeline in the right direction.