itsual CI/CD and Automation
Overview
Reliable automation is what turns good local development into trustworthy delivery.
When to Use
- Creating or modifying pipelines
- Adding quality gates (tests, lint, security scans)
- Improving developer feedback loops
- Deployment automation
Principles
- Fast feedback on the most common failures
- Deterministic, hermetic builds where possible
- Fail closed on quality and security gates for main branches
- Keep pipelines readable and maintainable
Common Stages
- Lint / static analysis
- Unit & integration tests
- Security / dependency scanning
- Build artifacts
- Deploy (with appropriate approvals/environments)
Verification
- Pipeline correctly gates bad changes
- Happy path is reasonably fast
- Failures provide actionable signal