deployment-pipeline-design
Design secure CI/CD pipelines
Many teams deploy without clear stages or approvals and face risky releases. This skill gives proven pipeline structures and rollout strategies to improve safety and speed.
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Using "deployment-pipeline-design". Design a CI/CD pipeline with approval and rollback for a Kubernetes service.
Expected outcome:
- Stages: Source, Build, Test, Staging Deploy, Integration Tests, Approval, Production Deploy, Verify, Rollback
- Approval: Manual gate after staging with a named approver group
- Deployment: Canary rollout with stepwise traffic shifts and health checks
Using "deployment-pipeline-design". How do I implement blue-green deployment for a database-backed application?
Expected outcome:
- Create parallel production environments (blue=current, green=new)
- Deploy green version alongside blue with identical infrastructure
- Run smoke tests against green before switching traffic
- Keep blue running for instant rollback if issues arise
Using "deployment-pipeline-design". What metrics should I track to measure deployment success?
Expected outcome:
- Deployment frequency: how often you deploy to production
- Lead time: time from code commit to production deployment
- Change failure rate: percentage of deployments causing failures
- Mean time to recovery: how quickly you restore service after incidents
Security Audit
SafePure documentation skill containing only markdown explanations and YAML/JSON example snippets. All static findings are false positives triggered by example code patterns in documentation. No executable scripts, network calls, filesystem access, or credential handling code exists. The skill is a reference guide for CI/CD architecture patterns.
Risk Factors
🌐 Network access (4)
⚙️ External commands (32)
🔑 Env variables (1)
Quality Score
What You Can Build
Multi-stage pipeline plan
Create a staged CI/CD design with approvals and safety checks for production releases.
Standardize deployment strategy
Select rolling, blue-green, or canary strategies for consistent platform releases.
Release governance guide
Define approval gates and verification steps for controlled production changes.
Try These Prompts
Draft a simple multi-stage CI/CD pipeline for a web app with build, test, staging, approval, and production deploy.
Propose approval gate patterns for GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines, including who approves and when.
Compare rolling, blue-green, and canary strategies for a high-traffic API and recommend one.
Design a full CI/CD pipeline with security scans, staging tests, approval, canary deploy, verification, and rollback.
Best Practices
- Fail fast with quick tests before long-running jobs
- Use environment parity between staging and production
- Automate rollback based on health checks and error rates
Avoid
- Skipping approval gates for high-risk production changes
- Deploying without post-deploy verification or monitoring
- Using a single stage for build, test, and deploy