CI/CD Patterns

A comprehensive skill for designing and implementing continuous integration and deployment pipelines. Covers pipeline architecture, deployment strategies, quality gates, and platform-specific patterns for GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.

When to Use

• Designing new CI/CD pipelines from scratch
• Implementing deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling)
• Setting up quality gates and approval workflows
• Configuring GitHub Actions or GitLab CI pipelines
• Implementing automated rollback mechanisms
• Creating multi-environment deployment workflows
• Integrating security scanning into pipelines

Pipeline Architecture

Pipeline Stages

A well-designed pipeline follows these stages in order: