CI/CD

CI/CD or CICD is the combined practices of continuous integration (CI) and (more often) continuous delivery or (less often) continuous deployment (CD)

• CI/CD is a method to frequently deliver apps to customers by introducing automation into the stages of app development

The Ideal CI/CD Pipeline

1. Source:

   • Require X reviewers

2. Build:

   • Compile source and dependencies
   • Run unit tests
   • Check and enforce code coverage % (90+)

3. Test Environment:

   • Run Integration tests

4. Staging Environment:

5. Prod Environment (1box) (10% traffic):

   • Alarms on Errors, Latency, Key Business Metrics
   • Bake Period: 24 hours
   • Anomaly Detection
   • Error counts + Latency Breaches
   • Canary

6. Prod Environment:

   • Alarms on Errors, Latency, Key Business Metrics
   • Bake Period: 24 hours
   • Anomaly Detection
   • Error counts + Latency Breaches
   • Canary