CI/CD for Beam

1. Introduction

CI/CD for Beam involves automating the build, testing, and deployment of Apache Beam pipelines into cluster runners using modern delivery frameworks.

2. Why This Concept Exists

Manually packaging and deploying pipeline templates from developer laptops leads to deployment drift. Automated CI/CD pipelines guarantee that only code passing unit tests is converted to templates and rolled out to production.

3. Automated Flow Diagram

[Git Commit] ──> [Run Unit Tests] ──> [Package Flex Template] ──> [Register to Docker Registry]

4. Key Takeaways

• Package pipelines as Flex Templates to decouple compilation dependencies from execution runtimes.
• Use containerized build agents to compile and register pipeline assets automatically.