Continuous Integration and Delivery Tools Questions

Practical knowledge and hands on experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and platforms. Topics include tool selection criteria, pipeline authoring and syntax, lifecycle stages, runners and agents, declarative versus scripted pipelines, plugin and extension ecosystems, configuration best practices, security and credential management, scalability and performance considerations for build and test workloads, artifact storage and promotion, integration with source control systems and deployment targets, and basic troubleshooting and observability of pipelines. Candidates should be able to discuss specific platform examples such as Jenkins, GitLab continuous integration, and GitHub Actions, explain trade offs between platforms, and describe how these tools fit into a broader automation and infrastructure ecosystem.