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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

Rollback Strategies That Are Tested, Not Improvised

Stop improvising rollbacks in incidents. Define, script, and rehearse rollback in CI so a bad release is undone fast and safely.

CI/CDMay 14, 20266 min read

Deployment Strategies Review: Blue-Green, Canary, Rolling

Compare blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments, and learn how CI gates each so you release with less risk and faster rollback.

CI/CDMay 5, 20268 min read

Immutable Artifacts: Build Once, Promote Across Environments

Stop rebuilding in every environment. Build a versioned artifact once in CI and promote it through staging to production unchanged.

CI/CDApril 23, 20267 min read

Environment Parity: Why "Works on My Machine" Is a CI Failure

Eliminate environment drift between dev, CI, and production so "works on my machine" stops being a valid excuse in your pipeline.

CI/CDApril 14, 20266 min read

Enforcing Commit Conventions (Conventional Commits) With CI

Adopt Conventional Commits and let CI enforce, lint, and validate them so releases and changelogs generate automatically.

CI/CDApril 2, 20265 min read

Code Review That Feeds the Pipeline: PR Checks Worth Gating On

Pick the pull-request checks that actually protect a branch, and wire them into CI so review stops shipping known-bad merges.

CI/CDMarch 24, 20266 min read

Feature Flags: Shipping Half-Built Features Without Breaking Trunk

Ship incomplete features safely by hiding them behind flags, so every merge stays green and the trunk is always deployable.

CI/CDMarch 12, 20267 min read

Trunk-Based Development: Why CI Works Best With It

Learn why short-lived branches and trunk-based development amplify continuous integration, and how merge trains and pipeline gating keep master shippable.

CI/CDMarch 3, 20266 min read