ci-cd

Transferring a repository to another GitHub organization looks like a single button, and for history, issues and pull requests it is. What breaks is everything outside the repository that refers to it by owner and name: cloud logins, tokens, infrastructure code and deployment controllers. The fix is to find those references first and change them in the right order, so nothing fails on transfer day.

A self-hosted CI runner pool on a logistics platform we operate had zero runners online for 6 hours 38 minutes, and nothing reported it. The watchdog built to catch exactly that ran on the same pool, so it waited in the queue behind the outage it was supposed to detect. A health check that shares a failure domain with the thing it checks only works when you don’t need it.