Spring Boot Tutorial 0/110 lessons ~6 min read Lesson 79“Production-grade backends”

CI/CD Pipelines

CI/CD automates the path from commit to production: build, test, scan, push image, deploy.

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Concept-first lesson

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Introduction

CI/CD automates the path from commit to production: build, test, scan, push image, deploy. Modern tools: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, Argo CD.

Syntax reference

The canonical pipeline:

bash

git push
  │
  ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 1. Lint  (checkstyle, spotless)          │
│ 2. Unit tests (mvn test)                 │
│ 3. Integration tests (Testcontainers)    │
│ 4. SAST (CodeQL / Snyk)                  │
│ 5. Build image (buildpacks)              │
│ 6. Image scan (Trivy)                    │
│ 7. Push to registry                      │
│ 8. Deploy: dev (auto)                    │
│ 9. Smoke tests                           │
│ 10. Deploy: stg → prod (manual approval) │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘

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