NetBay journal

CI/CD

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

32 articles in this topic

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.

Test database migrations in CI — against real databases, in order, with rollbacks — so schema changes do not break production at deploy.

Design deployment stages with environments, required checks, and manual approval gates between you and production.

Configure branch protection correctly — required checks, approvals, and stale-review dismissal — so the rule is enforced, not a formality.

Diagnose nondeterministic tests, use retries the right way, and build pipelines that are reliable not lucky.

Automate version numbers and Git tags from a semantic versioning scheme so every release is traceable and rollbackable.

Track cycle time, lead time, and failed-build rate to make CI faster and more reliable, and use the numbers to drive real improvement.

A pragmatic path from a manual-deploy monolith to team-wide CI/CD without rewriting everything at once.

A red pipeline is a process failure, not a fact of life. Learn quarantine, flaky-test triage, and the discipline that keeps CI green.