Fix CD to refer to continuous deployment

[antmaro]

It seems there is an inaccurate (or mistake) information around CICD and continuous deployment terms.

First you have the following sentence:

CI/CD
    Define on first use; generally continuous integration/continuous delivery. It does not mean continuous development, a term with questionable usefulness and only marginal adoption.

The last sentence is correct because apply to CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT and not continuous DEPLOYMENT, which is also an option for CD. CD can be either continuous delivery/deployment.

The other sentence:

continuous deployment
    A special case of continuous delivery, where approved code is automatically pushed to production. Do not use "CD" to refer to this practice. 

The last sentence about "Do not use CD to refer to this practice" is not correct. It would be correct for Continuous Development, but not for continuous deployment.

You can see that CD refers to continuous delivery/deployment in the industry, you can check some examples from our own articles, and also for the DO400 course:

• https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/devops/what-is-ci-cd
• https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/ansible-automation-platform-ci-cd-overview
• https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/02/28/how-employ-continuous-deployment-ansible-openshift#how_to_install_ansible_automation_platform_in_openshift
• https://rol-factory.ole.redhat.com/rol/app/courses/do400-4.12/pages/ch01

[daobrien]

This usage comes from corporate and if you think it should be revised we'll need to bring it up via the Word Nerds group for discussion.

[antmaro]

@daobrien , yeah, I think this requires a discussion, this is why I change this PR to draft.

I had a discussion with Steven in the AU0029L about this particular topic. It seems the information from Stylepedia matches (more or less) what Wikipedia says and also, checking the Red Hat Official Product List all related to CD is written as continuous delivery, but both terms, continuous delivery and deployment seems to be correct.

[julian-cable]

From Word Nerds (Bascha Harris), 6 February 2026:

It's probably time to revisit this one. My best guess would be that this entry was made when we were still thinking continuous delivery would eventually absorb continuous deployment, or wanted to focus on the delivery aspect alone in our offerings. But sounds like this one should be considered again and the entries updated. Def looks like our position has shifted.