Ci Cd

What it does

This skill provides a comprehensive guide for designing, optimizing, securing, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines. It offers decision trees and templates to create new pipelines for various project types (Node.js, Python, Go, Docker) using GitHub Actions or GitLab CI. The skill also includes strategies for improving pipeline performance through caching dependencies, parallelization, and other optimization techniques.

When to use it

• You're starting a new software development project and need help setting up your initial CI/CD pipeline.
• Your existing CI/CD pipelines are slow or inefficient and you want to identify areas for improvement.
• You’re looking for best practices in security scanning (SAST, DAST, SCA) within your CI/CD workflows.
• You need guidance on choosing the right templates and configurations for GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.

Key capabilities

• Provides decision trees to guide pipeline creation based on project type.
• Offers pre-built templates for Node.js, Python, Go, and Docker image builds in both GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.
• Suggests a basic pipeline structure with stages for fast feedback, unit testing, integration testing, build artifacts, end-to-end testing, and deployment.
• Includes a checklist of quick wins to optimize pipeline performance.
• Offers a pipeline analyzer script (python3 scripts/pipeline_analyzer.py) to identify bottlenecks.

Example prompts

• "I'm building a Node.js application; what GitHub Actions template should I use?"
• "How can I speed up my GitLab CI pipeline?"
• "What are some best practices for integrating security scanning into my CI/CD workflow?"
• “Show me the basic structure of a CI/CD pipeline.”

Tips & gotchas

• The skill relies on pre-defined templates and scripts. You may need to adapt them to your specific project needs.
• To use the pipeline analyzer, you will need Python 3 installed and access to the scripts directory within the skill's files.
• Refer to the referenced markdown files (references/best_practices.md, references/optimization.md, references/devsecops.md) for more detailed information on specific topics.