The article outlines five impactful CI/CD practices that drastically improved deployment efficiency from 5 hours to 5 minutes. It emphasizes the importance of stateless pipelines, where each run is independent and clean from prior states. By explicitly defining all environment dependencies, the need for caching was removed, resulting in faster deployments. This approach allows immediate checks of changes and simplifies the isolation and fixing of failures. The implementation of these practices greatly enhanced the overall efficiency of the development process, leading to significant time savings.
Stateless pipelines mean that each pipeline run is independent of previous ones. This might sound simple, but the lack of dependency on previous states leads to smoother, faster deployments.
We ensured that all environment dependencies were explicitly defined within the pipeline. This eliminated the need for caching states and allowed us to start fresh every time.
Statelessness allows the pipeline to start clean, run without waiting for old state references, and immediately check the changes. If something breaks, it's easy to isolate and fix.
Implementing these practices took our deployment times from 5 hours to 5 minutes, significantly enhancing our overall efficiency.
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