ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Continuous deployment

So, imagine you're making a cake with your mom. You mix all the ingredients together and put it in the oven. Once the cake is cooked, you take it out of the oven and decorate it with frosting and sprinkles before serving it to your friends.

Continuous deployment is similar, but instead of a cake, we're talking about software. Imagine that software is like a cake recipe that needs to be mixed, cooked, and decorated before it's ready for people to use.

When we talk about continuous deployment, it means that every time the software is changed or updated, it automatically goes through a process where it's checked, tested, and made ready for people to use without having to manually mix, cook, and decorate it each time.

Just like how you want your cake to be perfect with no mistakes, we want software to be perfect and error-free when people use it. Continuous deployment helps us make sure that our software is always the best it can be by constantly checking and testing it to make sure it's working properly.

So, in simple terms, continuous deployment makes sure that the software is always perfect and ready to use, just like a perfect cake.