It’s maddening how inefficient CI/CD setups are.

It’s maddening how inefficient CI/CD setups inexperienced DevOps engineers are. - Fixed that for you.

Proper pipelines are modular and should run longer validation or updates externally, with only necessary stages executing.

• code validate - will this code compile
• code secure - are there any known security flaws introduced
• code plan/compile - if it’s iac, plan, if it’s application code, compile
• if it’s prod or like, approve required (human delay). Dev, test, uat - proceed with deploy
• code deploy - push code live

Things like: patching, config management, vulnerability scanning, compliance checks, etc… are done outside the pipeline.

There’s a reason people like me charge a lot! Lazy and/or inexperienced staff will get you in trouble one day.