GitLab CI/CD in Production: Pipelines, Runners, Caching, Security, and Deployments
A practical GitLab CI/CD guide covering stages vs DAG pipelines, rules, typed inputs, runners, artifacts vs cache, parent-child pipelines, merge trains, OIDC cloud auth, protected deployments, and pipeline security.
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CI/CD Pipelines Explained: Build, Test, Secure, Deploy, and Roll Back Safely
A practical guide to CI/CD pipelines covering commit validation, builds, tests, security checks, immutable artifacts, provenance, environment promotion, deployment strategies, approvals, rollback, secrets, and pipeline observability.
GitHub Actions in Production: Workflows, Runners, OIDC, Security, and Deployments
A production guide to GitHub Actions covering workflow design, reusable workflows, concurrency, caching and artifacts, GitHub-hosted vs self-hosted runners, least-privilege permissions, OIDC cloud authentication, environments, and artifact attestations.
Jenkins in 2026: Production CI/CD with Pipelines, Agents, Security, and Kubernetes
A modern production guide to Jenkins covering Jenkinsfile Pipeline-as-Code, Declarative vs Scripted pipelines, agents, ephemeral Kubernetes workers, credentials, shared libraries, plugin risk, controller hardening, backups, and when Jenkins still makes sense.
Automating Deployments Safely: Rolling Updates, Canary Releases, Health Gates, and Rollbacks
A production deployment-automation guide covering immutable releases, rolling and canary rollouts, blue/green, readiness gates, database migrations, concurrency control, rollback, GitOps-style desired state, secrets, and post-deploy verification.
Best CI/CD Tools in 2026: GitHub Actions vs GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, Buildkite, and Argo CD
A practical CI/CD tool selection guide comparing GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, CircleCI, Buildkite, and Argo CD by repository integration, runners, self-hosting, security, monorepos, Kubernetes/GitOps, and operational ownership.