Simulation of one or more pipeline jobs in a software deployment pipeline

An apparatus comprising:

• at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory;
• the at least one processing device being configured to implement the following steps:
• obtaining a request from a user to simulate at least one pipeline job in one or more pipeline stages of a software deployment pipeline;
• processing a configuration file associated with the at least one pipeline job to identify an image for at least one virtualized computing resource associated with the at least one pipeline job;
• generating an executable script for the at least one pipeline job using the configuration file associated with the at least one pipeline job;
• initiating a generation of a simulated version of the at least one virtualized computing resource in a simulated environment using the image for the at least one virtualized computing resource associated with the at least one pipeline job;
• initiating an execution of at least a portion of the at least one pipeline job in the simulated version of the at least one virtualized computing resource using the executable script;
• and
• obtaining one or more results from the execution of the at least one pipeline job in the simulated version of the at least one virtualized computing resource.

A non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by at least one processing device causes the at least one processing device to perform the following steps:

• obtaining a request from a user to simulate at least one pipeline job in one or more pipeline stages of a software deployment pipeline;
• processing a configuration file associated with the at least one pipeline job to identify an image for at least one virtualized computing resource associated with the at least one pipeline job;
• generating an executable script for the at least one pipeline job using the configuration file associated with the at least one pipeline job;
• initiating a generation of a simulated version of the at least one virtualized computing resource in a simulated environment using the image for the at least one virtualized computing resource associated with the at least one pipeline job;
• initiating an execution of at least a portion of the at least one pipeline job in the simulated version of the at least one virtualized computing resource using the executable script;
• and
• obtaining one or more results from the execution of the at least one pipeline job in the simulated version of the at least one virtualized computing resource.