CI/CD Platform Engineering

A book-shaped table of contents for CI/CD platform engineering: pipeline foundations, build/artifact/delivery platforms, GitHub Actions end to end (workflow mechanics through enterprise governance), Argo Workflows, Tekton, Jenkins, release engineering, platform security, observability, reliability, enterprise governance, and MAANG interview preparation — cross-linking existing tech/kubernetes/platform-engineering-fundamentals/system-design notes instead of duplicating them.

2 — What Is a CI/CD Platform?

Defines a CI/CD platform as a product with its own responsibilities, consumers, shared services, and capability surface, rather than a single pipeline tool.

3 — CI/CD Platform Architecture

Lays out the seven-layer reference architecture — developer, source control, build, artifact, deployment, runtime, and feedback — that the rest of the book is organized around.

4 — Platform Maturity Model

Defines a five-stage maturity curve from manual delivery to autonomous delivery, used throughout the book to benchmark platform capability.

8 — Matrix Builds

Explains matrix strategy fan-out, dynamic matrices computed at runtime, include/exclude overrides, and common OS and language matrix patterns.