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 — Copy-Paste Pipelines

Covers the anti-pattern of duplicating pipeline definitions across repos instead of sharing templates, and the maintenance debt it creates.

3 — Manual Releases

Covers the anti-pattern of releases that still depend on manual steps, and the risk and toil that persist as a result.

4 — Shared Credentials

Covers the anti-pattern of long-lived, shared pipeline credentials instead of scoped, short-lived, workload-specific identity.

5 — Long-Running Pipelines

Covers the anti-pattern of pipelines that grow slower over time without bound, and why that erodes developer trust in the platform.