Inefficient CI/CD processes can cause long deployment times and increased frustration among teams. By defining environment dependencies explicitly, creating stateless pipelines, and implementing best practices in idempotency and secrets management, deployment times improved dramatically. These changes facilitated faster and smoother deployment processes, allowing teams to isolate and fix issues efficiently. The emphasis on automation and process optimization was crucial in transforming the team’s deployment experience from a 5-hour ordeal to a mere 5 minutes.
We ensured that all environment dependencies were explicitly defined within the pipeline. This eliminated the need for caching states and allowed us to start fresh every time.
Statelessness allows the pipeline to start clean, run without waiting for old state references, and immediately check the changes. If something breaks, it's easy to isolate and fix.
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