Buildkite Pipelines

Pipeline YAML is the core of Buildkite CI/CD. This skill covers writing, optimizing, and troubleshooting .buildkite/pipeline.yml — step types, caching, parallelism, annotations, retry, dynamic pipelines, matrix builds, plugins, notifications, artifacts, and concurrency.

Quick Start

Create .buildkite/pipeline.yml in the repository root:

steps:
  - label: ":hammer: Tests"
    command: "npm test"
    artifact_paths: "coverage/**/*"

  - wait

  - label: ":rocket: Deploy"
    command: "scripts/deploy.sh"
    branches: "main"