At the center of any CI (and CD) setup is what's called the pipeline. A CI/CD pipeline automates the build, test, and deploy steps of delivering your releases, and is a key DevOps process.

If your team is adopting CI, or your work involves building / improving CI pipeline, this guide is perfect for you.

What's in this guide:

• Introduction to Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and the CI/CD pipeline
• 7 best practices, including 5 specific best practices for the CI pipeline
• The best way to ensure tools the team has bought to improve code quality, security etc. (like a vulnerability scanner for third-party packages) are consistently being used