deployment-pipeline-design
Design multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, security checks, and deployment orchestration. Use this skill when designing zero-downtime deployment pipelines, implementing canary rollout strategies, setting up multi-environment promotion workflows, or debugging failed deployment gates in CI/CD.
Profile →npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill deployment-pipeline-design --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Deployment Pipeline Design Architecture patterns for multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, deployment strategies, and environment promotion workflows. ## Purpose Design robust, secure deployment pipelines that balance speed with safety through proper stage organization, automated quality gates, and progressive delivery strategies. This skill covers both the structural design of pipeline architecture and the operational patterns for reliable production deployments. ## Input / Output ### What You Provide - **Application type**: Language/runtime, containerized or bare-metal, monolith or microservices - **Deployment target**: Kubernetes, ECS, VMs, serverless, or platform-as-a-service - **Environment topology**: Number of environments (dev/staging/prod), region layout, air-gap requirements - **Rollout requirements**: Acceptable downtime, rollback SLA, traffic splitting needs, canary vs blue-green preference - **Gate constraints**: Approval teams, required test coverage thresholds, compliance scans (SAST, DAST, SCA) - **Monitoring stack**: Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch, or other metrics sources used for automated promotion decisions ### What This Skill Produces - **Pipelin
- Purpose
- Input / Output
- What You Provide
- What This Skill Produces
- When to Use
- Detailed patterns and worked examples
- Troubleshooting
- Health check passes in pipeline but service is unhealthy in production
- Canary deployment never promotes to 100%
- Staging deploy succeeds but production job never starts
- Docker layer cache busted on every run causing slow builds
- Rollback leaves database migrations applied to old code
- Advanced Topics
- Related Skills
migrations/V20240315__add_nullable_column.sql (forward) migrations/V20240315__add_nullable_column.undo.sql (backward)
What does the deployment-pipeline-design skill do?
Design multi-stage CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, security checks, and deployment orchestration. Use this skill when designing zero-downtime deployment pipelines, implementing canary rollout strategies, setting up multi-environment promotion workflows, or debugging failed deployment gates in CI/CD.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill deployment-pipeline-design --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From wshobson/agents, a repository with 38,479 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.