course 03 · beginner
CI/CD Pipelines
Every push tested, every merge shipped. GitHub Actions first, then Jenkins and GitOps.
- Level
- Beginner
- Roadmap
- 12 stages · 46 topics
- Lessons
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- Linux & Bash, Git & GitHub
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before you start
The CI/CD Pipelines roadmap
Everything this course covers, in the order you'll learn it. Open a stage to see why it matters and jump to its lesson.
01CI/CD conceptsstart here
Know what a pipeline is for before writing one.
Lesson 1: What a pipeline is for →02GitHub Actions basics
The quickest way to get a real pipeline running on your own repo.
Lesson 2: GitHub Actions basics · coming soon03Workflow details
Make pipelines fast and readable instead of slow and copy-pasted.
Lesson 3: Workflow details · coming soon04Secrets & environments
Deploy without pasting passwords into YAML.
Lesson 4: Secrets & environments · coming soon05Testing in pipelines
The pipeline is only as useful as the checks it runs.
Lesson 5: Testing in pipelines · coming soon06Build & publish
Turn code into a versioned artifact that can be deployed anywhere.
Lesson 6: Build & publish · coming soon07Deploy
Get that artifact onto servers, and back off them when something breaks.
Lesson 7: Deploy · coming soon08Jenkins
Still everywhere in big companies. You will meet it at work.
Lesson 8: Jenkins · coming soon09Other CI tools
Same ideas, different YAML. Read any pipeline you are handed.
Lesson 9: Other CI tools · coming soon10GitOps
Let Git be the source of truth for what runs in the cluster.
Lesson 10: GitOps · coming soon11Pipeline security
Pipelines hold the keys to production. Treat them that way.
Lesson 11: Pipeline security · coming soon12Scaling pipelines
Keep CI fast and cheap as the team and the repo grow.
Lesson 12: Scaling pipelines · coming soonCourse complete · ready for the next one
Stage order follows the community roadmap at roadmap.sh/devops, trimmed to what DevOps work needs.