CI/CD Pipeline Best Practices: Complete Implementation Guide
9/18/2025
Effective CI/CD pipelines accelerate delivery while maintaining quality.
## Pipeline Stages 1. Source control trigger 2. Build and compile 3. Unit testing 4. Security scanning 5. Integration testing 6. Deployment to staging 7. Smoke testing 8. Production deployment 9. Monitoring and rollback
## Tool Stack - GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/Jenkins - Docker for containerization - Kubernetes for orchestration - ArgoCD for GitOps - Datadog for monitoring
## Security Integration - SAST scanning - Dependency checking - Container scanning - Secret management
## Success Metrics - Deployment frequency - Lead time - MTTR - Change failure rate