Deployment Pipeline Design

This one walks you through structuring CI/CD pipelines with the staging gates and approval workflows that keep production deploys from turning into fire drills. You get concrete patterns for manual approvals, time delays, and multi-approver gates across GitHub Actions, GitLab, and Azure Pipelines. The deployment strategy section is solid, covering rolling updates, blue-green, canary with Argo Rollouts, and feature flags with actual config snippets. It includes a full multi-stage pipeline example that chains build, test, staging, integration tests, and production with health checks and automated rollback logic. The metrics section covers the DORA four (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) which is what you actually need to track if you're serious about improving your release process.

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$ npx -y skills add sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills --skill deployment-pipeline-design --agent claude-code

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Deployment Pipeline Design

Architecture patterns for multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates and deployment strategies.

Do not use this skill when

The task is unrelated to deployment pipeline design
You need a different domain or tool outside this scope

Instructions

Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs.
Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes.
Provide actionable steps and verification.

Purpose

Design robust, secure deployment pipelines that balance speed with safety through proper stage organization and approval workflows.

Use this skill when

Design CI/CD architecture
Implement deployment gates
Configure multi-environment pipelines
Establish deployment best practices
Implement progressive delivery

Pipeline Stages

Standard Pipeline Flow

┌─────────┐   ┌──────┐   ┌─────────┐   ┌────────┐   ┌──────────┐
│  Build  │ → │ Test │ → │ Staging │ → │ Approve│ → │Production│
└─────────┘   └──────┘   └─────────┘   └────────┘   └──────────┘