How do I handle complex multi-service deployment pipelines?
You can build pipelines now. The everyday deploy, the standard setup, you have handled. Where you trip is the tangled one, many services that all depend on each other, where one wrong move cascades. That difficulty is not a gap in your ability. It is genuinely a harder class of problem, and it defeats plenty of experienced people. The trick with multi-service deploys is to stop treating them as one giant thing to hold in your head. Break the mess into pieces you can reason about one at a time. What depends on what? What must go first? Draw it out. Most of the fear comes from complexity you are trying to juggle instead of writing down. Next time one trips you, map the dependencies on paper before you touch anything. Then handle one service at a time, in order, checking each before the next. The complexity does not shrink, but your view of it clears. You are not missing some talent others have. You just need to make the invisible visible, and then it becomes work you can do.