CI/CD Pipelines

Lessons

1. 1

   What CI/CD Is

   Free

   Explain CI vs CD vs Continuous Deployment and why pipelines exist.

   Beginner·30 min
2. 2

   GitHub Actions in Depth

   Write multi-job workflows with triggers, matrix, caching, reusable workflows.

   Intermediate·50 min
3. 3

   A Complete CI Pipeline

   Build a workflow that lints, tests, type-checks, builds, and pushes a Docker image.

   Intermediate·55 min
4. 4

   A Complete CD Pipeline

   Deploy automatically to staging on PR merge and to production on release tag.

   Intermediate·55 min
5. 5

   Environment Management

   Manage env vars + secrets across stages; use OIDC federation for cloud auth.

   Intermediate·40 min
6. 6

   Testing in CI

   Run unit + e2e tests with coverage thresholds in CI.

   Intermediate·40 min
7. 7

   Security Scanning in CI

   Scan dependencies, container images, and source for vulnerabilities and committed secrets.

   Intermediate·45 min
8. 8

   Deploy Strategies

   Compare canary, blue/green, and feature-flag deploys; pick the right one.

   Advanced·35 min
9. 9

   ArgoCD and GitOps

   Explain the GitOps model, sync a cluster to Git with Argo CD, and place Infrastructure as Code in the pipeline.

   Intermediate·40 min
10. 10

    Observability and Monitoring

    Apply the three pillars (logs, metrics, traces), structured logging, the four golden signals, OpenTelemetry tracing, error tracking, and sane on-call alerting.

    Intermediate·50 min
11. 11

    Other CI Platforms: GitLab CI and CircleCI

    Read GitLab CI and CircleCI pipelines, map them to the universal CI model, and use artifacts vs caching correctly.

    Intermediate·35 min
12. 12

    CI/CD Job Readiness

    Translate CI/CD skills into resume bullets and interview answers for DevOps / Platform / Release Engineer roles.

    Beginner·30 min