Building Resilient CI/CD Pipelines for OTT Workloads Using Quality Gates

Abstract

The paper offers a resilient CI/CD pipeline architecture that is optimal in the case of Over-the-Top (OTT) platforms and improves it with quality gates to make the releases stable, performance-oriented, and compliant. Since OTT services distribute large data volumes using heterogeneous devices and networks with variable performance, continuous deployment requires the fast and reliable deployment. To overcome these challenges, the idea of this system is to involve automated gates used in the CI/CD lifecycle to focus on the quality of the code, security issues, code coverage, and regulatory compliance. Included features like SonarQube, Trivy, and Kubernetes auditing allow building trust in the release, whereas observability layers provide actionability in every pipeline phase. The applicability of the framework was confirmed in a DRM-featured OTT initiative, and the results show that the production incidents were mitigated by 74 percent, the build time was normalized by 45 percent, and the platforms testing coverage improved dramatically. The development of the Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), alert accuracy, test automation helped in the quickening of the release without affecting the quality. Domain-aware architecture that includes verification checkpoints in each phase of CI/CD pipelines is significant (it supports both the high-velocity delivery end of the spectrum and the production-level reliability end of the same spectrum) because it allows us to close this distance between velocity and reliability. Using a proper quantitative analysis and the practical implementation metrics, this study can serve as a repeatable blueprint to be used by teams to achieve the scalable, secure, and observable CI/CD pipelines in high-demand and need such OTT ecosystem.