Pipeline Anatomy with YAML

Now that we've covered Introduction to CI/CD and Pipelines, we know the why: automated builds, tests, and releases create fast feedback.

This lesson is the how it is written down.

Most modern CI/CD systems let teams describe a pipeline in YAML, a human-readable configuration format. That file becomes the bridge between the pull request workflow you practiced earlier and the automated build/test gates that protect main.

Pull Request -> Pipeline YAML -> Build -> Test -> Package -> Release Gate

Think of pipeline YAML as a recipe the CI server follows every time code changes.