CI/CD Playbooks

Patterns and practices for continuous integration, deployment, and release management.

Topics

Pipeline design

• Trunk-based delivery for small teams
• Environment promotion without configuration drift

Quality gates

• Contract testing in the pipeline
• Security scanning that doesn’t block delivery

Progressive delivery

• Blue/green on Azure Container Apps
• Feature flags vs deployment rings

Infrastructure in pipeline

• Terraform plan/apply in CI with policy checks
• GitOps vs push-based deployment

Rollback and recovery

• Automated rollback triggers
• Database migration strategies in CI/CD