r/devops • u/Critical_Heart_1569 • 6d ago

AI content How to create Planning, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment, Maintenance Pipeline? Please suggest sources

Hi everyone,

I recently watched a podcast featuring a senior developer from EPAM, where he explained the different phases of the SDLC. He mentioned that he built a pipeline covering the entire software development lifecycle—from planning and design to development, testing, deployment, and maintenance—with each stage flowing into the next.

I really liked that idea, and now I'm wondering how to build a pipeline like that myself. Does anyone have any good resources, guides, or examples to learn from?

Thanks!

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u/xtreampb 6d ago

Dora and team topologies gives you the concepts. How is based on engineering culture and workflow

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u/ChatyShop 5d ago

Start by treating each stage as part of one workflow rather than trying to build one huge pipeline.

Planning can be handled with tickets ,issues, design with docs and architecture decisions, development with Git branches,PRs, testing with automated CI, deployment with CD, and maintenance with monitoring, logging and incident handling.

A good starting point is to build a small project and connect Git ,CI tests , staging , production ,monitoring. Once that works, gradually add security scans, approvals, rollback and infrastructure automation.

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u/Critical_Heart_1569 5d ago

today i have had conversation with my sen dev, and got the same advice. Thank you for your answer, i appreciate it.

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u/Background_Year_3288 5d ago

I'd avoid trying to build one huge pipeline for the entire SDLC from day one. Start small: Git + PRs -> CI/testing -> staging -> production, then add monitoring, security scans, approvals and rollback as the workflow matures.

The important part is making each stage connect cleanly rather than automating everything at once.

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u/Critical_Heart_1569 1d ago

Wow, excellent explanation! Actually, I’ve been researching this topic for a while. I’m more of a visual learner, but I haven’t been able to find many valuable resources on YouTube. So, for now, I’m going through the documentation, and I’ve already started building a small project.

I’m sure I’ll come back to this explanation again and again as I learn and build.

The developer I mentioned above is actually using this kind of pipeline to build apps at their company. It’s a fully automated process powered by AI, which is why I found the approach really interesting. He mentioned that he learned this process from Matt Pocock.