A map of the road from commit to production. Click any step to see why it belongs in the pipeline, which risk it covers and what happens when it is missing. Start in Minimum Viable Pipeline mode — the smallest set of steps you can responsibly ship to production with. Everything else is an extension, not an obligation.
Upload your YAML and we will compare it against the map below — MVP step coverage, what is missing and the usual anti-patterns. Multiple files including templates are fine.
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Pick a step in the pipeline above — you will get the reasoning, the risk and a configuration example.
Tools change, principles do not. When you design a pipeline from scratch, hold on to these three — the rest can be added later.
The artefact is built once and the same one travels through dev, test and production. The moment you rebuild for every environment, what you deploy to production is not what you tested.
Tag images with the git SHA, not latest. That is the only way to know which
commit is running in production — and the only way rollback and incident forensics
mean anything.
A scan that only prints findings to a log protects nobody. Measure and report first, then set a firm threshold and let the pipeline fail. Without that, security is optional.
We design and implement CI/CD pipelines for enterprise environments — Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, GitOps and security gates teams actually use.
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