Why Your CI/CD Pipeline Is a Liar – Extended Version

How to build pipelines that protect prod instead of gaslighting you.

Your pipeline is green.

Prod is down.

Someone says, “But the build passed.”

And now you’re staring at a dashboard like it personally betrayed you.

This is the finale of the CI/CD series.

We’ve covered what CI actually means.
We’ve separated Delivery from Deployment.
We’ve talked about pipelines for infrastructure — not just app dev.

Now we’re going to fix the r…