CI bash scripts are fragile — move to declarative, reusable pipelines

CI bash scripts are fragile — move to declarative, reusable pipelines targets a $18.0B = 2.5M dev teams x $7.2K avg annual CI/CD & DevOps tool spend total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 20% yoy for CI/CD and devops-tooling segments.

Key trends driving demand: Shift-to-declarative-workflows -- Teams prefer YAML/DRY pipeline primitives over ad-hoc shell scripts to increase repeatability and testability.; Cloud-native-builds -- Containerized runners and ephemeral infrastructure reduce environment drift, exposing brittle bash logic.; Policy-as-code & supply-chain security -- Compliance needs drive adoption of standardized pipelines that can be scanned and gated.; AI-assisted developer tools -- LLMs make automated migration, linting and intent extraction from scripts practical at scale..