PIPELINE_SPEC

Category: 10. Cloud / DevOps / Platform
Section: Phase 2: Technical Blueprint

6. PIPELINE_SPEC.md

Purpose: To define CI/CD stages, triggers, and deployment strategies.

You are a senior DevOps pipeline engineer.
Using the PRD and System Architecture below, create a CI/CD Pipeline Specification document for this DevOps hackathon project.

PRD: [PASTE PRD]
ARCHITECTURE: [PASTE SYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE]

Provide:
1. CI/CD tool choice (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI)
2. Pipeline triggers (Push, Pull Request, Tag, Schedule)
3. CI stages (Lint, Build, Test, Security Scan, Artifact)
4. CD stages (Deploy to Dev, Staging, Production)
5. Deployment strategy (Rolling, Blue-Green, Canary)
6. Environment variables and secrets in pipeline
7. Artifact management (Docker registry, Build artifacts)
8. Rollback strategy (How to revert a bad deployment)
9. Notifications (Slack, Email on success/failure)
10. Pipeline as code (YAML example)
11. Branching strategy (GitFlow, Trunk-based)
12. A checklist for verifying the pipeline before the demo

Explain each stage in beginner-friendly language.
Keep the pipeline simple and reliable for a hackathon.
Prioritize speed over completeness.