A Simple CI/CD Pipeline That Works
I used to overcomplicate CI/CD. I'd spend days wiring up Jenkins, configuring agents, and debugging YAML that nobody understood. Then I realized: a simple pipeline that works beats a fancy one that doesn't. Here's the setup I use for most projects now. A CI/CD pipeline has three jobs: Run tests on every push. Build an artifact if tests pass. Deploy that artifact to a server. That's it. No Kubernetes, no service mesh. Just enough automation to stop manually SSHing into servers. GitHub Actions fo…