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.

6 — GitHub Actions: Notifications

Covers routing workflow status to Slack, Teams, email, GitHub notifications, and ChatOps integrations.

1 — Pipeline Metrics

Covers build duration, queue time, success rate, and failure rate as the core pipeline metrics a platform should expose by default.

2 — CI/CD Logging

Covers structured, centralized logging for pipeline runs — build logs, deployment logs, and audit logs — as a platform-provided capability.

3 — Pipeline Tracing

Covers distributed tracing across pipeline stages and services to diagnose where time and failures actually accumulate in a delivery flow.