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Continuous Delivery vs Deployment – Extended Version

Why “Ready to Deploy” Is Not the Same as “Automatically Deployed”

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JJ – Chief Packet Pusher
Feb 02, 2026
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If the free version was about clearing up confusion, this one is about reality.

Because once you move past definitions, CI/CD immediately collides with:

  • Change windows

  • Approval boards

  • Compliance

  • Blast radius

  • And people who have PagerDuty scars

This is where most “DevOps blog posts” quietly stop being useful.

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