deployment-pipeline-design

Multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates and deployment orchestration. Architecture patterns for multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, deployment strategies, and environment promotion workflows. Design robust, secure deployment pipelines that balance speed with safety through proper stage organization, automated quality gates, and progressive delivery strategies. This skill covers both the structural design of pipeline architecture and the operational patterns for reliable production deployments. Environment protection rules in GitHub enforce required reviewers before this job starts. Configure reviewers at Settings → Environments → production → Required reviewers . Use an AnalysisTemplate (Argo Rollouts) or a custom gate script to block promotion when error rates exceed a threshold: Characteristics: gradual rollout, zero downtime, easy rollback, best for most applications. Characteristics: instant switchover, easy rollback, doubles infrastructure cost temporarily, good for high-risk deployments with long warm-up times.