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CI !== Pipeline

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+title: CI !== CI Pipeline
+date: 2024-07-02
+permalink: daily/2024/07/02/ci-not-ci-pipeline
+tags:
+    - software-development
+    - git
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+    Continuous integration is not the same as a CI pipeline.
+---
+
+Yesterday I replied to [a post on X](https://x.com/ianmiell/status/1304103008242991111):
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+> I have worked on many teams that use CI tooling and call their process CI, but I have never seen CI actually done as defined on Wikipedia:
+>
+> "CI is the practice of merging all developers' working copies to a shared mainline several times a day"
+
+[I've written about this before][0] and I think the term CI or CI/CD is one of the most misused or misleading in software development.
+
+CI, or continuous integration, is, as the post days, the process of everyone merging their changes at least once, or usually several, times a day.
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+It isn't something that is configured or created - it's a process.
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+## Here's the thing
+
+You can do CI without a CI pipeline and vice versa.
+
+You can have a CI pipeline but not do continuous delivery or deployment.
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+What most people think of as CI or CI/CD is a set of automated checks that run when code is updated - usually on a feature or topic branch.
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+Whilst important, it's not "CI".
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+[0]: {{site.url}}/blog/continuous-integration-vs-continuous-integration