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title: Continuous Integration Introduction
meta:
    description: Learn about the importance of CI/CD in Tinybird, how it integrates with Git, and the advantages it offers for managing real-time data projects.
---

# Prepare your data project for production

Tinybird's Git integration transforms data pipeline management, aligning it with established software development practices. This ensures each Tinybird Workspace action relates to a specific Git commit, offering a robust, version-controlled environment for your real-time data deployments. In a nutshell, it brings your workflow closer to industry best practices.

## Why use version control?

Version control, a standard in software development, is now integral to building real-time data products with Tinybird. If your Workspace uses Tinybird's integration with Git, it means you can build real-time data products like you build any software - not just benefiting from version control, but also isolated environments, CI/CD, and testing too.

This approach allows you to treat and manage your real-time data in the **same way you manage your code**. You can take your existing software engineering knowledge and apply the same principles to real-time data products.

When managing your Tinybird projects with version control, you can also:

- Sync Tinybird actions with your Git commits.
- Deploy semantically-versioned Data Sources, Pipes, and API Endpoints as code.
- Use Branches to attach production data to non-production Branches, and test your data pipelines safely with real data.

If you're familiar with version control already, it should make testing, merging, and deploying your Tinybird data projects a familiar process.

Data teams can use Tinybird in the same way that software engineering teams work: To enforce standardized agreements to use version control, code reviews, quality assurance, testing strategies, and continuous deployment.

## Next steps

- Get familiar with the core concepts: [Branches](/classic/work-with-data/organize-your-work/branches) and [Workspaces](/classic/administration/workspaces).
- Follow the version control tutorial to connect your Tinybird Workspace to version control: [Working with version control](/classic/work-with-data/organize-your-work/working-with-version-control).
- Explore our [repository of common use cases for iterating using version control](https://github.com/tinybirdco/use-case-examples) to explore and try out how to iterate Tinybird projects with version control.