CI/CD Pipelines: Solving a Problem You May Not Have
“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.” — Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment At some point, CI/CD pipelines became the thing you’re supposed to have. Not because you’ve identified a specific problem they solve — just because they’re right. Professional. Proper. The kind of thing serious developers do. I’ve spent years building them. I know how to make them elegant: staged deployments, approval gates, environment promotion workflows, automated rollbacks triggered by failed health checks. There’s genuine craft in a well-designed pipeline. ...