Dynamically generate CI/CD pipelines
WHAT IT TESTS: designing pipeline-as-code that adapts to a repo. OUTLINE: a detection step scans for marker files and maps them to reusable stage templates assembled at runtime; trade off convention/DRY against reduced transparency and harder debugging.
WHAT IT TESTS: whether you can design a convention-driven pipeline generator and reason about its costs. ANSWER OUTLINE: a first stage inspects the checkout for marker files (pom.xml, Dockerfile, package.json), maps each to a reusable, parameterized stage template, then assembles and runs the resulting pipeline dynamically. Benefits: DRY, consistent, low per-repo config. Trade-offs: less explicit and harder to debug, magic that surprises developers, versioning and security risks of executing generated steps, and detection false positives.
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