Kubernetes CI/CD Pipelines – 7 Best Practices and Tools

CI/CD pipelines can enhance the software delivery process by automating key stages such as testing, security scanning, and deployment. Kubernetes is a leading container orchestrator for deploying, scaling, and administering container workloads in production. Combining CI/CD with Kubernetes allows for automatic deployment of applications whenever source code changes occur. However, integrating Kubernetes into CI/CD workflows can create new problems such as difficulty seeing what's running in environments and time-consuming addressing of deployment failures. To address these issues, best practices include using GitOps, scanning container images, using Helm to manage deployments, ensuring a rollback mechanism, using immutable image tags, following Kubernetes security best practices, and trying pull-based CI/CD workflows.