Pipeline Patterns and Antipatterns - Things your Pipeline Should (Not) Do

CI/CD pipelines are essential to modern DevOps, but many teams struggle with pipeline design. This talk explores proven patterns and common antipatterns in pipeline design.

id: pipeline-patterns title: “Pipeline Patterns and Antipatterns - Things your Pipeline Should (Not) Do” speaker: daniel-raniz-raneland excerpt: “Automated pipelines have become an integral part of our daily workflow. As the pipelines become increasingly important, the demands placed on them rise proportionally.” topics:

  • devops
  • ai events:
  • 2025-aarhus

Automated pipelines have become an integral part of our daily workflow. As the pipelines become increasingly important, the demands placed on them rise proportionally. As with many things, a great pipeline operates seamlessly in the background, while a poorly designed one becomes a constant irritation. Are you publishing your artefacts every time the pipeline runs, running all steps in a sequence, or installing all the tools every time a new build starts? In this talk, I will address these antipatterns and more I have encountered during my work as a consultant, explaining why I consider them such and what you should do instead. After listening to this talk, you will better understand what makes a pipeline great and concrete things you can do to improve it and shorten the feedback loop.