How to Build a CI/CD Pipeline for Your Application

A beginner-friendly guide to automatically building, testing, and deploying applications.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment can dramatically improve the software delivery process. A typical CI/CD pipeline starts when a developer pushes code to a Git repository. The pipeline can restore dependencies, compile the application, execute automated tests, build a Docker image, and deploy the application. Environment-specific configuration should be managed separately from application code. Secrets should never be committed to a Git repository. Modern pipelines can also include security scanning, dependency checks, and container vulnerability scanning.