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CI/CD Pipelines

CI/CD is the heartbeat of modern software delivery. Ship features faster, catch bugs earlier, and deploy with confidence.

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Sub-topics
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What You'll Learn
  • CI Concepts 10 guides
  • CD Pipeline 10 guides
  • Automated Testing 12 guides
  • Deployment Strategies 12 guides
  • Rollback Strategy 8 guides
  • Jenkins 28 guides
  • GitHub Actions 20 guides
  • GitLab CI/CD 15 guides
  • + 3 more topics below

CI Concepts

What is CI, why it matters, pipeline stages and triggers

10 guides

CD Pipeline

Continuous Delivery vs Deployment, environments and gates

10 guides

Automated Testing

Unit, integration, smoke tests in CI pipelines

12 guides

Deployment Strategies

Blue-Green, Canary, Rolling, Feature flags — which to use

12 guides

Rollback Strategy

How to quickly revert a bad deployment in production

8 guides

Jenkins

Declarative & scripted pipelines, agents, plugins, credentials

28 guides

GitHub Actions

Workflows, jobs, reusable actions and secrets management

20 guides

GitLab CI/CD

Pipelines, runners, environments and GitLab Container Registry

15 guides

CircleCI

Orbs, workflows, contexts and CircleCI optimization

10 guides

Azure DevOps

Pipelines, Boards, Repos and Azure Artifacts

12 guides

Jenkins Advanced

Shared libraries, Jenkinsfile best practices, multi-branch

15 guides

Core Concepts

Pipeline Stages

Build → Test → Package → Deploy — the classic CI/CD flow.

Deployment Strategies

Blue-Green, Canary, Rolling — choosing the right approach.

Jenkins Pipelines

Declarative vs scripted pipelines, agents, and shared libraries.

GitHub Actions

Workflow triggers, matrix builds, reusable actions, and secrets.

Learning Roadmap

1
Phase 1: Beginner

Understand what CI/CD does, set up a basic GitHub Actions workflow that runs tests on push.

CI Concepts
CD Pipeline
Automated Testing
Deployment Strategies
2
Phase 2: Intermediate

Build multi-stage Jenkins pipelines, add Docker builds, and automate deployments to staging.

Rollback Strategy
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI/CD
3
Phase 3: Advanced

GitOps with ArgoCD, advanced deployment strategies, pipeline security scanning, and SLO-based delivery.

CircleCI
Azure DevOps
Jenkins Advanced

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Topics in This Domain

Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI CircleCI Blue-Green CI Concepts CD Pipeline Automated Testing Deployment Strategies Rollback Strategy Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD
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devknow@host:~$ sandbox load cicd
[LOAD] Calibrating live environment...
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