Knowledge check

1.

What is the primary distinction between continuous delivery and continuous deployment?

Continuous deployment focuses on minimizing time to deploy and time to mitigate, while continuous delivery strives to implement full automation.

Continuous delivery automates the entire software delivery process, while continuous deployment requires manual approval for the final delivery.

Continuous deployment implements full automation, including the production environment, while continuous delivery requires a manual approval for the final delivery.

2.

What is the purpose of progressive exposure techniques in CD practices?

To minimize potential damage caused by programming errors that weren't detected by CI-based code analysis, reviews, and automated testing.

To increase the number of users who can access the application at once.

To eliminate all potential programming errors.

3.

What is the main principle of IaC that ensures consistency of the target environment and precludes the possibility of unintended side effects of intermediary changes?

Automation

Version control

Idempotence

4.

What is the purpose of a GitHub Actions workflow?

To create a new repository in GitHub.

To implement software delivery workflows by using the capabilities of the GitHub platform.

To store and reuse data across steps in a workflow.

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