The activity of assembling a number of configuration items to create part of an IT service. The term also refers to the release of a configuration item, or set of items, that is handed over from development to test or production. In software, it involves compiling source code into executable artifacts.
The build process is the gateway between code and value. A slow or unreliable build process creates a bottleneck that halts the entire engineering organization.
A build must be immutable and reproducible. If you build the same commit twice, you must get the exact same binary, bit-for-bit. Weinto enforces strictly containerized builds where the build environment itself is defined as code, ensuring that "it works on my machine" is never an excuse.