CI/CD Pipelines

Automate testing and deployment with GitHub Actions

🔑 Key Concepts

Pipeline stages — Lint → Test → Build Docker → Push to registry → Deploy. Every merge to main triggers deployment.
AI quality gate — Run evaluation tests in CI. If RAGAS faithfulness drops below threshold, block the deployment.
Docker layer caching — Copy requirements.txt first (changes rarely), install deps, then copy source (changes often).
Smoke tests — Hit your API with a simple request after deployment. Catch breakage in seconds, not hours.

💡 Practice: Try implementing each concept yourself before moving on. Reading about RAG and building RAG are very different things.