Parallel Universes for the CI/CD Pipeline

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Describes using parallel isolated environments to run CI/CD pipelines so different versions or configurations can be tested and deployed concurrently. Covers technologies for creating those parallel “universes” (containers, ephemeral environments, orchestration tooling) and approaches for orchestrating pipelines to switch traffic, validate builds, and reduce interference between runs.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 9:40Context switching
3. 12:34How we'd like to switch context
4. 25:40Octopod for the user

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