CI/CD Gating Process

A CI/CD Gating Process is a gating process that enforces quality thresholds to block deployment pipelines when performance metrics fall below acceptable limits.

• AKA: Pipeline Quality Gate, Automated Deployment Gate, CI/CD Threshold Enforcement, Build Gate Process.
• Context:
  • It can typically implement automated threshold checks on test results, coverage metrics, and performance benchmarks.
  • It can typically prevent regression deployment by comparing current metrics against baseline thresholds.
  • It can typically integrate with version control systems to block merge requests failing quality criteria.
  • It can often enforce multi-stage gates across build phases, test phases, and deployment phases.
  • It can often support configurable thresholds for different environment types and criticality levels.
  • It can often provide override mechanisms with approval workflows for emergency deployments.
  • It can range from being a Simple Binary Gate to being a Multi-Criteria Gate, depending on its evaluation complexity.
  • It can range from being a Static Threshold Gate to being a Adaptive Threshold Gate, depending on its baseline adjustment.
  • It can range from being a Blocking Gate to being a Warning Gate, depending on its enforcement severity.
  • It can range from being a Single-Stage Gate to being a Multi-Stage Gate, depending on its pipeline coverage.
  • ...
• Examples:
  • Code Quality Gates, such as:
    • Test Coverage Gate requiring minimum coverage percentage.
    • Static Analysis Gate blocking critical vulnerabilitys.
  • Performance Gates, such as:
    • Latency Threshold Gate for response time requirements.
    • Resource Usage Gate limiting memory consumption and CPU utilization.
  • AI System Gates, such as:
    • Model Accuracy Gate ensuring minimum performance score.
    • Agentic System Behavior Gate validating agent decision quality.
  • ...
• Counter-Examples:
  • Manual Review Process, which lacks automated enforcement.
  • Post-Deployment Monitoring, which detects issues after release.
  • Advisory Check, which provides warnings without blocking capability.
• See: CI/CD Pipeline, Quality Gate, Continuous Integration, Deployment Pipeline, Automated Testing, Agentic System Regression Testing Task, Build Automation.

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