The author was tasked with setting up a CI/CD process for a Blazor application using JetBrains Space. They had experience with other tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions but found implementing pipelines in Space challenging. They struggled with creating the necessary automation scripts and host parameters. Despite good documentation, they found the CI/CD features lacking in predefined steps and tasks for standard cases, leading to unnecessary effort. They were also concerned about the exposure of project-wide secrets as plain text in runtime parameters.