<P> Continuous delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time . It aims at building, testing, and releasing software faster and more frequently . The approach helps reduce the cost, time, and risk of delivering changes by allowing for more incremental updates to applications in production . A straightforward and repeatable deployment process is important for continuous delivery . </P> <P> Continuous delivery and DevOps are similar in their meanings and are often conflated, but they are two different concepts . DevOps has a broader scope, and centers around the cultural change, specifically the collaboration of the various teams involved in software delivery (developers, operations, quality assurance, management, etc .), as well as automating the processes in software delivery . Continuous delivery, on the other hand, is an approach to automate the delivery aspect, and focuses on bringing together different processes and executing them more quickly and more frequently . Thus, DevOps can be a product of continuous delivery, and CD flows directly into DevOps . </P>

What do the three continuous cycles on the continuous delivery pipeline enable