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.

1 — Git as the Platform Backbone

Covers how branching strategy, trunk-based development vs GitFlow, and monorepo vs polyrepo choices shape everything a CI/CD platform has to support.

2 — Pipeline Architecture

Compares pipeline-as-code, declarative pipeline models, event-driven triggering, and workflow orchestration as the architectural building blocks of any pipeline system.

3 — Pipeline Design Principles

Establishes idempotency, reusability, modularity, parameterization, and composability as the design principles that separate a maintainable pipeline from a fragile one.

4 — Pipeline Lifecycle

Walks the full pipeline lifecycle — trigger, build, test, package, deploy, verify, promote, rollback — as the canonical stage model referenced throughout the book.