Learn the core principles of continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- What is CI/CD?
- Benefits of automation
- CI vs CD vs CD
- Pipeline concepts
- DevOps culture
- Automation strategies
- Release management
- Quality gates
Master Git workflows and branching strategies for effective CI/CD.
- Git workflow strategies
- Branching models
- GitFlow vs GitHub Flow
- Feature branches
- Pull request workflows
- Code review processes
- Merge strategies
- Release branches
Build powerful CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions workflows.
- GitHub Actions basics
- Workflow syntax
- Events and triggers
- Jobs and steps
- Actions marketplace
- Secrets management
- Matrix builds
- Custom actions
Create robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Jenkinsfile.
- Jenkins installation
- Pipeline as code
- Declarative pipelines
- Scripted pipelines
- Plugin ecosystem
- Blue Ocean interface
- Distributed builds
- Pipeline optimization
Implement comprehensive CI/CD workflows using GitLab's integrated platform.
- GitLab CI/CD overview
- .gitlab-ci.yml syntax
- Runners and executors
- Pipeline stages
- Environment deployments
- Auto DevOps
- Container registry
- Security scanning
Automate application builds with various build tools and strategies.
- Build automation concepts
- Multi-stage builds
- Dependency management
- Caching strategies
- Parallel builds
- Build artifacts
- Build optimization
- Cross-platform builds
Integrate comprehensive testing strategies into CI/CD pipelines.
- Testing pyramid in CI/CD
- Unit test automation
- Integration testing
- End-to-end testing
- Test reporting
- Coverage analysis
- Quality gates
- Test parallelization
Master various deployment patterns and strategies for reliable releases.
- Deployment patterns
- Blue-green deployments
- Canary releases
- Rolling deployments
- Feature flags
- A/B testing
- Rollback strategies
- Zero-downtime deployments
Manage multiple environments and configuration across the deployment pipeline.
- Environment strategies
- Configuration management
- Environment variables
- Secrets management
- Infrastructure as code
- Environment promotion
- Database migrations
- Environment monitoring
Implement security best practices and DevSecOps in your pipelines.
- DevSecOps principles
- Security scanning
- Vulnerability management
- Code analysis
- Dependency scanning
- Container security
- Compliance automation
- Security gates
Monitor pipeline performance and implement observability practices.
- Pipeline monitoring
- Performance metrics
- Deployment tracking
- Error monitoring
- Log aggregation
- Alerting systems
- Dashboard creation
- Incident response