This article outlines five key CI/CD practices that drastically improved deployment efficiency for a software team. Initially facing slow deployment times that turned minor updates into prolonged processes, the team recognized the need to simplify and automate their CI/CD workflow. By implementing stateless pipelines and clarifying environment dependencies, they drastically reduced deployment times from five hours to just five minutes. The insights shared emphasize the importance of automating processes and managing dependencies effectively to enhance team productivity and reduce stress during deployments.
Our CI/CD pipeline was over-complicated, inefficient, and not automated enough. Once these issues were tackled, our deployment time dramatically reduced from hours to minutes.
Stateless pipelines mean that each pipeline run is independent of previous ones, leading to smoother and faster deployments by eliminating the need for caching states.
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