Cicd Pipeline Setup

CI/CD Pipeline Setup

Table of Contents

• Overview
• When to Use
• Quick Start
• Reference Guides
• Best Practices

Overview

Build automated continuous integration and deployment pipelines that test code, build artifacts, run security checks, and deploy to multiple environments with minimal manual intervention.

When to Use

• Automated code testing and quality checks
• Containerized application builds
• Multi-environment deployments
• Release management and versioning
• Automated security scanning
• Performance testing integration
• Artifact management and registry

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# .github/workflows/deploy.ymlname: Build and Deploy
on:  push:    branches:      - main      - develop  pull_request:    branches:      - main  workflow_dispatch:
env:  REGISTRY: ghcr.io  IMAGE_NAME: ${{ github.repository }}
jobs:  test:    runs-on: ubuntu-latest    strategy:      matrix:        node-version: [18.x, 20.x]
    steps:// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Best Practices

✅ DO

• Fail fast with early validation
• Run tests in parallel when possible
• Use caching for dependencies
• Implement proper secret management
• Gate production deployments with approval
• Monitor and alert on pipeline failures
• Use consistent environment configuration
• Implement infrastructure as code

❌ DON'T

• Store credentials in pipeline configuration
• Deploy without automated tests
• Skip security scanning
• Allow long-running pipelines
• Mix staging and production pipelines
• Ignore test failures
• Deploy directly to main branch
• Skip health checks after deployment