Delivery
The delivery platform: how software is built, assessed, deployed, published and kept compliant.
Two categories. Shipping is the pipeline — repository operations, the rule engine over infrastructure definitions, the build, the deployment, the compliance stage, and the orchestration that runs them in order. Distribution is what happens to the result: catalogues, environments, identity, metering and hosting.
Every stage has an API rather than a script, so a configuration bundle generated by a machine can be committed, assessed, built, deployed and published by the same calls a person would use.