Platform & DevOps·Pipelines, promotion and GitOps
a merge triggers a sequence of stages on someone else's machine, and the sequence is now the only way anything reaches production.
Build pipeline
Also calledCI pipeline, pipeline, workflow
The automated sequence that turns a commit into a tested, published artefact and then into a deployment. It is infrastructure in its own right — it has uptime, capacity, credentials and a blast radius — and it is usually the most privileged system a team operates while receiving the least operational attention. Its slowness is a direct tax on every change, which is why build time is a reliability metric rather than a convenience one.