Building Production CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub Actions, Terraform & Docker
From commit to deploy in under 3 minutes: automated testing, container scanning, staging previews, and blue-green rollouts.
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Modern Continuous Delivery Best Practices
Manual deployments via SSH or FTP belong in the 2010s. Modern engineering teams rely on automated pipelines that guarantee code quality and security before any byte reaches production.
Essential Pipeline Stages
- **Lint & Static Code Analysis:** ESLint, Prettier, and TypeScript compilation run on every pull request.
- **Automated Unit & Integration Tests:** Prevent regressions before merging to main.
- **Container Build & Trivy Vulnerability Scan:** Scan Docker images for known CVEs in base operating systems.
- **Ephemeral Preview Environments:** Spin up branch preview URLs so designers and stakeholders can test features in isolation.
- **Zero-Downtime Blue/Green Deployments:** Promote tested containers without dropping ongoing user sessions.
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