The CI/CD Pipeline I Built Helped Me Understand DevOps End-to-End
One of the most valuable projects in my DevOps learning journey was building an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline on AWS.
It wasn't just about deploying an application it was about understanding how every stage contributes to a reliable software delivery process.
Project Workflow:
Developer pushes code to GitHub
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Jenkins triggers the pipeline
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Build & Unit Tests
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SonarQube checks code quality
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OWASP Dependency Check scans third-party libraries
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Docker image is built
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Trivy scans the container image for known vulnerabilities (CVEs)
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Image is pushed to Amazon ECR
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Helm values.yaml is updated with the new image tag
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Argo CD detects the Git change and synchronizes the Kubernetes cluster
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Application is deployed to Kubernetes
What I Learned:
Building the pipeline taught me that DevOps isn't just about deployment.
It's about automation | security | observability | reliability | repeatability.
Best Practices
โ Automate every deployment.
โ Fail the pipeline early when quality or security checks fail.
โ Store infrastructure and deployment configuration in Git.
Question
Which stage do you think adds the most value in a CI/CD pipeline?
Stop memorizing CI/CD commands. Understand the workflow instead.
Most people try to memorize hundreds of DevOps commands.The best DevOps engineers understand how everything connects.
This handwritten cheat sheet covers the complete CI/CD flow:
โ Git
โ Jenkins
โ Docker
โ Terraform
โ Kubernetes
โ AWS
Learn the flow, not just the commands. Save this for your next deployment or DevOps interview, and share it with someone preparing for DevOps.
This is the exact GitHub Actions pipeline I set up for every new .NET project.
No Jenkins. No paid platform. No DevOps needed.
Just one YAML file that lives next to your code, gets reviewed in pull requests like everything else, and takes a commit all the way to a published Docker image.
Here's the full path, job by job:
1. Build and test on every push
2. Real Integration test with TestContainers
3. Publish Nuget only on green
4. Build a Docker image that tests itself
5. Push to register and maintaining secrets
I wrote the complete guide - every workflow, the full Dockerfile, and the secrets setup - here:
๐ https://t.co/VWWkazxCCt
This guide will be useful for any deployment setup: VPS on Premise, Azure Web App, or Kubernetes cluster to pull.
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In the Kubeflow pipeline edition,
We explained that the training step in the pipeline is usually delegated to Kubeflow Trainer.
Here is why.
Some ML training and LLM fine-tuning workloads need multiple GPUs running across multiple Kubernetes nodes.
For this, you need the following.
- Create and manage multiple worker pods
- Assigning GPU resources
- Configuring communication between workers
- Tracking training job status and more..
Kubeflow Trainer helps in doing all these in Kubernetes-native way (CRD's) and abstracts away all the complexities.
In our recent MLOps newsletter edition, we covered the following.
- A look into distributed training
- Kubeflow Trainer architecture (TrainJob, Runtimes, JobSet)
- Install Trainer and run your first distributed TrainJob (on CPU nodes)
- How to run ML Training Jobs on GPU Nodes
- Which Models Actually Need GPUs
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โ Job & CronJob โ One-time and scheduled tasks
๐ Service โ Gives Pods a stable network identity
๐ช Ingress โ Routes external traffic to your applications
๐ ConfigMap & Secret โ Manage configuration and sensitive data securely
๐ฝ PV & PVC โ Persistent storage for applications
๐ท๏ธ Namespace โ Organize workloads across teams or environments
๐ค Kubelet โ Agent running on every Node
๐ Kube-Proxy โ Handles networking between services and Pods
๐ฏ Scheduler โ Decides where Pods should run
๐ง API Server โ The heart of Kubernetes communication
โก Controller Manager โ Continuously keeps the cluster in its desired state
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๐ Pods = Apartments
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๐ฆ Service = Reception Desk
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