What is the AI SIG?

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping every phase of the software delivery lifecycle—from intelligent test generation and automated code review to model-driven deployment decisions and self-healing pipelines. As AI workloads become first-class citizens in modern software delivery, CI/CD teams are increasingly responsible for building the pipelines, platforms, and operational practices that carry them from experimentation through to production. This Special Interest Group (SIG) is dedicated to defining how AI fits into Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environments, with a focus on practical implementation guidance, secure deployment patterns, platform engineering best practices, and the full spectrum of MLOps disciplines—including model training, fine-tuning, inference serving, and AI agent orchestration.

The CD Foundation’s AI Special Interest Group aims to close the gap between AI innovation and production-grade delivery by developing open, vendor-neutral guidance for integrating AI systems into CI/CD pipelines. The SIG will identify emerging tools, frameworks, and patterns that enable teams to ship AI workloads safely, repeatably, and at scale.

This SIG will produce a living guide that helps platform engineers, MLOps practitioners, DevOps teams, and AI/ML engineers build AI-ready delivery pipelines. It will map concrete implementation patterns to the distinct challenges of AI workloads—covering data pipelines, model registries, inference infrastructure, agent harnesses, and the security controls needed to govern them responsibly. Where gaps exist in current tooling or community guidance, the SIG will collaborate with the broader ecosystem to address them.

Meetings

The first meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 7 and will be held every two weeks.