CI/CD Pipelines
intermediateTopic 7 of 11 in Cloud & DevOps
What it is
CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment) automates the process of testing and deploying your code. Every time you push changes, a pipeline runs tests, builds the app, and deploys it — without manual steps.
Why cloud & devops developers need it
Manual deployments are slow and error-prone. CI/CD ensures every change is tested before it reaches production and makes deployments repeatable, fast, and reliable.
What to learn
Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Deployment
GitHub Actions: workflows, jobs, steps
Running tests automatically on push/PR
Building and pushing Docker images in CI
Deploying to cloud platforms from CI
Secrets management in pipelines
Branch protection and merge rules
Monitoring pipeline health and failures
Practice project
Full CI/CD Pipeline
Set up a GitHub Actions workflow for a project: lint code on every push, run tests on every pull request, build a Docker image on merge to main, and deploy to a staging environment.