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CI/CD pipeline optimization

Evaluate and improve your continuous integration and deployment pipeline

Assess your CI/CD pipeline to identify bottlenecks and improvement opportunities. This activity helps you achieve faster, more reliable deployments.

50 minutes
analysis

Overview

Assess your CI/CD pipeline to identify bottlenecks and improvement opportunities. This activity helps you achieve faster, more reliable deployments.

Learning objectives

  • Map current CI/CD pipeline
  • Identify bottlenecks and failures
  • Design optimizations

Instructions

Optimize CI/CD pipeline:

1. Document current pipeline stages 2. Measure stage durations 3. Analyze failure rates and causes 4. Identify optimization opportunities 5. Create improvement plan

Steps

1

Pipeline mapping

20 minutes

Document current state

2

Performance analysis

20 minutes

Measure and analyze

3

Optimization planning

10 minutes

Design improvements

Pro tips

  • Parallelize where possible
  • Cache dependencies
  • Fail fast on critical issues

Example outcome

CI/CD optimization plan with expected time savings and reliability improvements

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