In continuous deployment, every change goes through an automated pipeline and a working version of the application is automatically pushed to production. It does not involve any release approval cycle and the project teams need to ensure that every time a code is updated, tested and released, it works smoothly at the customer’s end.

Continuous deployment does not require a staging area for code changes to be manually reviewed and verified. This is because automated testing is integrated early in the development process and continues throughout all the phases of the release.

Kubernetes is open source software for deploying, scaling and managing containerised applications. As an orchestrator, it handles the work of scheduling containers on a cluster and also manages the workloads to ensure they run as intended.