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Definition

Practices and tooling integrating software development and IT operations for continuous delivery, increasingly governed by AI-era quality signals.

Key Points

  • Code coverage becoming first-class release gate as AI accelerates code generation
  • Software Delivery Knowledge Graph connects deployment, security, and testing signals
  • Harness-Codecov deal exemplifies consolidation of delivery governance tools
  • 2026-06-11: github Agentic Workflows bring reasoning-based automation into ci-cd — issue triage, CI failure analysis, dependency maintenance alongside deterministic pipelines
  • 2026-06-15 (upcoming): anthropic Claude API model retirements require DevOps teams to audit hardcoded model IDs in Actions, Docker, K8s before hard cutoff (2026-06-12-anthropic-claude-api-june-15-deprecation)

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