Gera Tools

CI/CD Pipeline Documentation Builder

Document your CI/CD pipeline stages, gates, and deployment flow

Build clear CI/CD pipeline documentation covering stages (lint, test, build, deploy), branch strategy, environment promotion flow, rollback procedure, and secrets management. Generates a Markdown doc you can paste into your repo.

What is a CI/CD pipeline?

A CI/CD pipeline is an automated sequence that turns a code change into a running deployment. Continuous Integration runs lint, tests, and builds on every change; Continuous Delivery/Deployment promotes the build through environments to production.

Make your delivery pipeline legible

A CI/CD pipeline is the automated path from commit to production. When it lives only in YAML and tribal knowledge, every new hire reinvents the map and every incident wastes minutes. This builder produces a concise Markdown document describing your stages, gates, branch strategy, promotion flow, and rollback — the things an engineer actually needs at 2am.

How it works

The tool assembles a structured document from the fields you fill in. The core sections are:

  • Stages — the ordered jobs in your pipeline. The classic sequence is lint to test to build to deploy. Each stage is a quality gate: if it fails, the pipeline stops and the change does not promote.
  • Branch strategy — how branches map to environments (for example, trunk-based with short-lived feature branches, or GitFlow with develop and release branches).
  • Promotion flow — the ordered list of environments a build moves through. The golden rule is to promote one immutable artifact rather than rebuild per environment, so production runs exactly what staging tested.
  • Rollback — the single rehearsed action to revert, plus how to verify it worked.
  • Secrets — where credentials are stored and who can read them. Values never appear in the doc.

The Markdown updates as you type. Nothing is sent anywhere — it all runs in your browser.

Tips and example

Keep each stage description to one line: what it does and what makes it fail. For a Node service a typical stage list is lint (eslint, fails on error), test (jest with coverage gate), build (compile + container image), and deploy (push image, run migrations, health check).

Write the rollback as a copy-paste command. “Re-run the previous successful deploy” is vague; deploy --revision <previous> then curl /health is actionable. Rehearse it in staging so it is not the first time you try it during an outage.

For secrets, document the store and the owner, not the secret: “Database URL lives in the CI secret group prod-db, rotated quarterly, owned by platform team.” That is enough for an auditor and safe to commit.