# Delivery # 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. - Access - Assess - Build - Code - Comply - Console - Deploy - Environment - Finance - Health - Host - Marketplace - Pipeline - Setup