CI/CD & Release Management

CI/CD & Release Management

Pipeline design, build stages, test automation, deployment strategies, semantic versioning, changelogs, feature flags, blue-green deployments, rollback strategies, and building reliable delivery pipelines.

FundamentalsTopics 1–13

·What is CI/CD?
·CI Pipeline Anatomy
·CD vs Continuous Deployment
·Build Stage
·Test Stage
·Code Quality Gates
·Artifact Storage
·Environment Strategy
·Feature Branches & CI
·Trunk-based Development CI
·Pipeline as Code
·Deployment Strategies Overview
·Rollback Fundamentals

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IntermediateTopics 14–26

·GitLab CI
·CircleCI
·Jenkins Pipelines
·Blue-Green Deployments
·Canary Releases
·Rolling Deployments
·Database Migrations in Pipelines
·Docker in CI: Build & Push
·Multi-stage Docker for CI
·Env Vars & Secrets in CI
·Parallelising Tests
·Test Result Reporting
·Build Caching Strategies

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AdvancedTopics 27–38

·Pipeline Performance Optimisation
·Change Impact Analysis
·Contract Testing in CI
·Security Scanning (SAST/SCA)
·Infrastructure Testing
·Multi-cloud Deployment Pipelines
·GitOps with ArgoCD/Flux
·Progressive Delivery
·Pipeline Observability
·Compliance & Audit Trails
·Dynamic Pipeline Generation
·Service Meshes & Traffic Shifting

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ProductionTopics 39–50

·Semantic Versioning
·Conventional Commits
·Release Branching Strategies
·Hotfix Workflows
·Monorepo Release Management
·Change Management & Approval Gates
·Release Dashboards
·Incident Rollback Procedures
·SLA-aware Deployment Windows
·Release Train Model
·Postmortems for Pipeline Failures
·Measuring DORA Metrics

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