CI/CD·CI/CD essentials

Artifacts

Build once and promote the same artifact across environments.

Beginner 10 min read Lesson 3 of 150 Challenge included
What you will be able to do
  • Build an immutable artifact.
  • Tag it with the commit.
  • Deploy the artifact, not source.

In plain English

Build once and promote the same artifact across environments.

  • Build an immutable artifact.
  • Tag it with the commit.
  • Deploy the artifact, not source.
build.ymlYAML
- run: npm run build
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
  with:
    name: app
    path: .output/
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