Deployment Pipeline Design Quiz

What you'll be asked

1. What is the primary purpose of a deployment pipeline in a software development lifecycle?
2. In a robust deployment pipeline, what should happen immediately after a build artifact is successfully created?
3. Why is it considered a best practice to use the same build artifact across all environments (e.g., Staging, QA, Production)?
4. When designing a deployment pipeline, what is the 'fail-fast' principle?
5. If your deployment pipeline requires a database schema migration that might result in downtime, which deployment strategy is best suited to maintain high availability?

Answers and explanations come after you submit.