deployment-pipeline-design

Architecture patterns for multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates and deployment strategies. Design robust, secure deployment pipelines that balance speed with safety through proper stage organization and approval workflows. Reference: See assets/approval-gate-template.yml Characteristics: Characteristics: Characteristics: Characteristics: - Design CI/CD architecture - Implement deployment gates - Configure multi-environment pipelines - Establish deployment best practices - Implement progressive delivery - Source - Code checkout - Build - Compile, package, containerize - Test - Unit, integration, security scans - Staging Deploy - Deploy to staging environment - Integration Tests - E2E, smoke tests - Approval Gate - Manual approval required - Production Deploy - Canary, blue-green, rolling - Verification - Health checks, monitoring - Rollback - Automated rollback on failure - Gradual rollout - Zero downtime - Easy rollback - Best for most applications - Instant switchover - Easy rollback - Doubles infrastructure cost temporarily - Good for high-risk deployments - Gradual traffic shift - Risk mitigation - Real user testing - Requires service mesh or similar - Deploy without releasing - A/B testing - Instant rollback - Granular control - Fail fast - Run quick tests first - Parallel execution - Run independent jobs concurrently - Caching - Cache dependencies between runs -...