CI/CD Pipeline Design: From Push to Production in Under 10 Minutes

What a Good CI/CD Pipeline Actually Does Not just "runs tests before deploy." A real pipeline: Validates code quality (lint, types, tests) Builds artifacts Deploys to staging automatically Gates production on approval or scheduled windows Rolls back automatically on failure Here's how to build one with GitHub Actions. The Base Pipeline # .github/workflows/ci.yml name: CI on: push: branches: [main, develop] pull_request: branches: [main] jobs: validate: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - uses: actions/setup-node@v4 with: node-version: '20' cache: 'npm' - run: npm ci - name: Type check run: npx tsc --noEmit - name: Lint run: npm run lint - name: Test run: npm test -- --coverage - name: Upload coverage uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3 with: token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}