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CI/CD & delivery workflows

Automate application or data pipeline delivery with clear build, test, and deployment stages.

  • Intermediate
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At a glance

Who it’s for

Engineers with the listed foundations who want to deepen this skill or apply it in a different stack.

Starting point: Intermediate

Bring these foundations

  • Git and experience running an application or data project.
Foundation sessions can be included when needed.

Technologies & tools

  • Git
  • Jenkins / Azure DevOps / CircleCI
  • Docker
  • AWS / Azure
Setup and versions agreed for your environment.

A practical destination

Skills to practise.

The sample path works towards these capabilities. Final goals reflect your team’s starting point and agreed scope.

  1. 01

    Design a delivery pipeline around meaningful checks.

  2. 02

    Build and test a reproducible application artifact.

  3. 03

    Control deployment stages, secrets and recovery.

Sample curriculum

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Each module connects the concepts to practical work. Open a module to explore both.

01Module 1

Delivery foundations

Concepts to understand

  • Continuous integration and deployment concepts
  • Branching and code review workflows
  • Choosing stages for application or data projects

Practical work

Map a change from commit to delivery. Decide which automated checks and human decisions belong at each stage.

Show the result. Explain one decision. Identify what you would improve.
02Module 2

Build & test automation

Concepts to understand

  • Dependencies and reproducible builds
  • Automated tests and quality checks
  • Artifacts, images, and versioning

Practical work

Build a pipeline that installs dependencies, runs tests and produces an artifact. Demonstrate how a failed check stops the flow.

Show the result. Explain one decision. Identify what you would improve.
03Module 3

Deployment stages

Concepts to understand

  • Environments and configuration
  • Secrets and scoped credentials
  • Release checks and approval boundaries

Practical work

Deploy the artifact to a training environment with deliberate secret and approval boundaries. Verify the running application.

Show the result. Explain one decision. Identify what you would improve.
04Module 4

Operating the pipeline

Concepts to understand

  • Logs and failure diagnosis
  • Rollback and recovery
  • Pipeline review and maintenance

Practical work

Investigate a failed pipeline and rehearse a recovery or rollback. Document the logs and checks needed to operate it.

Show the result. Explain one decision. Identify what you would improve.

A sample project

Bring the skills together.

Create a pipeline that builds, tests, packages, and deploys a sample project with a rollback procedure.

Shorter engagements can focus on selected exercises. A larger, learner-owned capstone can be scoped for a longer programme.

Review the work & reasoning

Four useful questions.

  1. 01

    Does the work meet the agreed requirements?

  2. 02

    Can the learner explain the key decisions and trade-offs?

  3. 03

    What happens with invalid input, failure or an unexpected condition?

  4. 04

    What would they change or explore next?

Designed & delivered by Ragav Kumar V.

Training since 2016 · 100+ batches · 3,000+ professionals trained

Live demonstrations, guided exercises, pair work and project reviews connect the concepts to implementation. We agree the goals, starting knowledge, cohort size, delivery and schedule before shaping the final curriculum.

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