Executive Summary: Automating static analysis, automated unit testing, staging deployments, and zero-downtime production deployment scripts.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines allow engineering teams to ship code safely multiple times a day. ### 1. Pipeline Stages - **Lint & Static Analysis:** Runs PHPStan / ESLint to catch syntax and type errors automatically. - **Automated Test Suite:** Executes unit and integration tests (php artisan test / vitest). - **Build Artifact Generation:** Compiles frontend assets (vite build) and caches Docker layers. - **Zero-Downtime Deployment:** Deploys new code release directories and updates symlinks automatically (git pull -> composer install -> php artisan migrate -> php artisan config:cache).