CI/CD Reliability: When Your Deploy Pipeline is Your SPOF

The Invisible SPOF Every engineering org has a single point of failure that nobody lists on their risk registry: the deploy pipeline itself . When CI/CD breaks, you can't ship features. You can't deploy hotfixes. You can't roll back a broken release. Your production doesn't go down, but your ability to fix production does. We had a 4-hour outage last year caused by a GitHub Actions incident. Not a single server went down. We just couldn't deploy the fix. Categorizing the Risk Your pipeline consi