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CI/CD Best Practices

CI/CD Best Practices

CI/CD Best Practices

CI/CD Best Practices

CI/CD Best Practices

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines automate the process of building, testing, and deploying software. A well-designed CI/CD pipeline provides fast feedback, reliable deployments, and consistent quality gates. This article covers pipeline design principles, artifact management, environment promotion, and deployment strategies.

Pipeline Design Principles

A CI/CD pipeline should follow the fail-fast principle. Early stages should catch the most common and cheapest-to-fix issues. A linting or formatting check fails in seconds, saving the developer from waiting for a full test suite. Unit tests run before integration tests.…