CI/CD Patterns That Actually Work: Beyond the Tutorial Examples
Every CI/CD tutorial shows you “hello world” pipelines. Then you hit production and realize none of that scales. Here are the patterns that actually work. The Fundamental Truth CI/CD pipelines are software. They need: Version control (they’re in your repo, good start) Testing (who tests the tests?) Refactoring (your 500-line YAML file is technical debt) Observability (why did that deploy take 45 minutes?) Treat them with the same rigor as your application code. ...