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CI/CD

28 practical CI/CD articles from Netbay Engineering — written for operators running Linux and Windows VPS in India.

28 articles in this topic

Learn what CI/CD really means and walk through a minimal Git-based pipeline you can stand up this afternoon.

A clear-eyed breakdown of integration, delivery, and deployment, with the automation boundaries that actually matter.

Build a clean, working GitHub Actions workflow from scratch with a step-by-step YAML walkthrough you can copy.

Set up your own build runner on a VPS to control the environment, cache, and cost of your CI pipeline.

Decide what belongs in each pipeline stage so mistakes fail early and builds stay fast and predictable.

Cache dependencies and build outputs with correct keys so every run is fast and never silently stale.

Steal this practical CI/CD pipeline template: lint, test, build, scan, and deploy in workflows your team can copy and adapt today.

Handle API keys and credentials in pipelines without leaking them in logs, artifacts, or pull requests.

Run checks concurrently and use build matrices to test many configurations without exploding your pipeline.

Scan dependencies for known vulnerabilities in every build and gate on blocking findings to keep supply-chain risk out of production.

Choose between ephemeral per-PR previews and a long-lived staging environment for realistic integration testing.

Move build outputs between pipeline stages correctly while keeping dependencies cached and artifacts immutable.