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What's in a Name?

Over the years, I've written on the topic of application release on several occasions ( here and here , for example).  The topic itself is generally straightforward in that automating your application release process provides several benefits: Increased reliability insofar that the deployment process is being managed by software, meaning that "friendly fire incidents" are less likely to occur Increased release velocity as the time to deploy the application in a single environment is reduced, sometimes substantially Increased release cadence as more frequent releases are now possible given the previous two points Is ARA always about applications? Not only this, but automating your CICD pipeline is a key enabler for DevOps, as it is one of the five tenets of that school of thought.  (The others, if you aren't aware, are cultural change; efficient processes that are void of wasteful, time and resource consuming steps; measurement of the effectiveness of you