Methodology

CI/CD Pipeline Design: Build-Deploy-Test

The Build-Deploy-Test process, and the core structure of the pipelines.

July 24, 2019 George Hadjiyiannis

16 minutes read

The first part of the series defined the objectives of the pipelines, and defined the stages that go with them. In this second part, I will focus on the core Build-Deploy-Test loop, which forms the core of each pipeline, and the design objectives and design decisions we made. If you have not read Part 1, I would recommend that you do so first, since this part will assume some context that is provided in the previous article.

CI/CD Pipeline Design: The Stages

The objectives and design of the test stages in a regular, distributed team environment.

July 16, 2019 George Hadjiyiannis

10 minutes read

Building CI/CD pipelines seems to be one of those topics that every team seems to struggle with. There are many effects that contribute to this:

When Lean works against you

Make sure you are not applying a methodology to a scenario that it was never intended for.

June 6, 2019 George Hadjiyiannis

8 minutes read

There is an unfortunate pattern in business where, once an idea becomes successful, people try to copy it into all sort of other scenarios. I always felt like the following picture summed up nicely how everyone feels about this phenomenon, as it relates to the outcome of the Agile Manifesto: