CI/CD Pipelines

Comprehensive guide for CI/CD pipeline design, optimization, security, and troubleshooting across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and other platforms.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

• Creating new CI/CD workflows or pipelines
• Debugging pipeline failures or flaky tests
• Optimizing slow builds or test suites
• Implementing caching strategies
• Setting up deployment workflows
• Securing pipelines (secrets, OIDC, supply chain)
• Implementing DevSecOps security scanning (SAST, DAST, SCA)
• Troubleshooting platform-specific issues
• Analyzing pipeline performance
• Implementing matrix builds or test sharding
• Configuring multi-environment deployments