Platform & DevOps·Pipelines, promotion and GitOps
the pipeline holds a production credential and applies the change itself, and the job's log tells you exactly what happened.
Push-based deployment
Also calledpush deploy, pipeline deploy
The pipeline connecting to the target environment and applying the change directly. It is simple, immediate and observable — one job, one log, one exit code — and it is why it remains the default nearly everywhere. Its cost is that the delivery system must hold standing credentials into every environment, which makes it the highest-value target in the organisation.