CICDrelaterade

CICDrelaterade refers to topics, practices, and artifacts related to continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) in software engineering. It covers the automation of building, testing, and deploying software changes as they move through the pipeline from code commit to production.

Key components include version control triggers, automated builds and tests, deployment automation, environment provisioning, artifact repositories, and release orchestration. Monitoring, logging, and feedback loops are integral to quickly detect and remediate issues introduced by changes. Security considerations are increasingly integrated as DevSecOps, ensuring tests, scans, and compliance checks run within the pipeline.

Common tools and patterns associated with CICDrelaterade include Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, and Spinnaker; containerization with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes; and infrastructure as code with Terraform or CloudFormation. Practices such as trunk-based development, feature flags, blue/green or canary deployments, and automated rollback support reliable releases and fast feedback.

Metrics used to assess CICDrelaterade efforts include lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery. Benefits include faster delivery, improved quality, and increased collaboration, but challenges can include pipeline complexity, upfront costs, flaky tests, cultural change, and security risks if not properly managed.

While often discussed within DevOps and agile contexts, CICDrelaterade encompasses not only technical automation but also governance, compliance, and organizational practices that enable reliable and repeatable software releases.