Workflows, jobs, and executors are defined in versioned YAML files, enabling traceable, reviewable changes to CI/CD behavior.
Orbs provide shareable commands and jobs for common tools and services, reducing duplication across projects and teams.
Dashboards show build success rates, duration trends, and flaky tests, helping teams tune reliability and performance of pipelines.
Support for Docker, Linux, Windows, and macOS executors enables building many kinds of apps, from web services to iOS builds.
CircleCI connects to GitHub/Bitbucket, cloud providers, registries, and notification tools to form a cohesive CI/CD ecosystem.
Each service gets its own CircleCI config with shared orbs for test and deployment steps, enabling independent, fast pipelines.
macOS executors run iOS builds and UI tests in the cloud, automating routine builds for QA, TestFlight, or App Store delivery.
Teams run Terraform and policy checks before applying infrastructure changes, integrating IaC validation into their pipelines.
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