Enhancing observability and resiliency in hybrid cloud CI/CD platforms

Baswareddy, Jithendra Prasad Reddy (2025) Enhancing observability and resiliency in hybrid cloud CI/CD platforms. Global Journal of Engineering and Technology Advances, 23 (1). pp. 232-242. ISSN 2582-5003

Hybrid cloud environments provide optimal CI/CD infrastructure by balancing security, performance, and scalability, but present challenges in observability and resiliency across distributed systems. Organizations implementing mature observability practices across metrics, logs, and traces experience significantly faster incident detection and resolution times. Integration of tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk creates unified monitoring capabilities that bridge on-premises and cloud environments. Resilient CI/CD architectures employ scalability patterns including autoscaling and job distribution, while implementing high-availability designs with multiple failure domains. Configuration as code and immutable infrastructure principles minimize configuration drift and enable rapid recovery. The major retail corporation case study demonstrates these principles through a multi-phase evolution of hybrid cloud CI/CD capabilities, yielding dramatic improvements in deployment frequency, lead time, and operational efficiency while reducing costs and improving reliability.