Efficient Pipelines with Woodpecker CI: The Complete Guide for Developers and Engineers

"Efficient Pipelines with Woodpecker CI"

Unlock the full potential of modern development workflows with "Efficient Pipelines with Woodpecker CI"—a comprehensive guide for DevOps engineers, architects, and technical leaders intent on mastering end-to-end continuous integration and delivery. This book demystifies the philosophy and practicalities of CI/CD, offering a deep dive into Woodpecker CI's architecture, distributed orchestration, and flexible plugin ecosystem. Through rigorous technical comparisons and hands-on examples, it equips readers to assess, select, and extend the right automation patterns for their teams and projects, whether migrating from legacy systems or starting fresh with cloud-native solutions.

Covering everything from installation intricacies to advanced pipeline design, the book provides expert guidance on deployment topologies, runner optimization, and secure configuration management. Readers learn to craft robust, maintainable pipelines using modular YAML, leverage Infrastructure-as-Code, and implement advanced features such as matrix builds, linting, and incremental testing. Special focus is given to build and test efficiency, parallel workflows, and strategies for scaling both monorepo and polyrepo environments—ensuring high-throughput, idempotent, and recoverable automation across diverse codebases.

Beyond operational best practices, the book delves into the critical dimensions of security, compliance, observability, and plugin development. Step-by-step chapters address secret management, policy enforcement, resource tuning, self-healing automation, and integration with real-world delivery patterns including blue-green, canary, and GitOps deployments. Through detailed case studies and a glimpse at the future of CI/CD—spanning AI-driven optimization and event-driven pipelines—"Efficient Pipelines with Woodpecker CI" is an essential, forward-thinking reference for anyone seeking to automate, optimize, and future-proof their software delivery lifecycle.

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E-bog: 12. juli 2025