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Best Practices

• Define clear pipeline stages (build, test, deploy)
• Use caching to speed up dependency installation
• Use artifacts to pass build outputs between stages
• Define rules instead of only/except for job conditions
• Use parallel and matrix for multi-version testing
• Set appropriate timeouts for each job
• Use environment keywords for deployment tracking
• Pipeline must define stages
• Jobs should have descriptive names
• Use extends or include for reusable job templates
• Use needs for DAG-based pipeline execution (faster than stage ordering)
• Use variables with protected/masked flags for sensitive values

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