CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (or, less commonly[1], Continuous Delivery). It is a common practice for managing the Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) of decoupled workload architectures. It implies that different components of a software workload are organized into disparate codebases (grouped by function, scope, domain, etc.), each with a distinct lifecycle (and, hopefully, version) that, at least generally, does not impact other such compo