Our CI/CD Pipeline Started Simple and Still Got Complicated

Complexity always finds a way in. Our CI/CD pipeline started with a few scripts. Build the code. Run the tests. Deploy the artifact. It worked well. For a while. Then requirements accumulated. Quietly. Complexity Did Not Arrive All at Once No one decided to make the pipeline complicated. It happened incrementally: add a security scan support another environment introduce feature flags handle hotfixes add approvals support rollback Each change made sense in isolation. ...

June 5, 2025 · 4 min · Jose Rodriguez