CI/CD Glossary

Every CI/CD term, defined.

Plain-English definitions of CI/CD, GitHub Actions, runner, and DevOps terminology - from "artifact" to "workflow". A fast reference that links straight to deeper guides.

CI/CD core

Pipelines, stages, builds, deploys.

Readiness GateReadiness Gate: A readiness gate is a condition that must be satisfied before an instance or deployment is co…

GitHub Actions

Workflows, jobs, steps, actions.

Deploy TokenA deploy token is a narrowly scoped credential granting automated access to push images or pull packages, wit…

Delivery, reliability & supply chain

Progressive delivery, DORA/SRE, supply-chain, and advanced runner terms.

Dynamic import boundaryA dynamic import boundary is the point where a module is loaded lazily with an import call, marking where a b… Suspense boundaryA suspense boundary wraps part of a UI so that while its data or code is loading, a fallback is shown, lettin… commitlintcommitlint is a tool that checks commit messages against a configured convention, rejecting commits that do n… Deregistration delayDeregistration delay is the time a load balancer keeps serving in-flight requests while draining a target bei…

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