🚀 jenkins pipeline for django — common mistakes and how to fix them

“Automation doesn’t eliminate work — it eliminates stupid work.” I remember the time I broke a production deploy because I forgot to run migrate . Not collectstatic — that would’ve been bad enough. No. I let new models hit the DB while the old code was still live. Stack trace had something like django.core.exceptions.FieldError: Unknown field 'updated_at' . 2 AM. Cold chai. A hotel chain losing bookings by the minute. Yeah, I learned this the hard way. Look — we’ve all been there. At that point,