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CI/CD Pipelines
Complete Beginner → Advanced Syllabus (Pin-to-Pin)
🟢 LEVEL 1 — CI/CD Fundamentals
1. What is CI/CD
- Continuous integration concept
- Continuous delivery vs deployment
- Deployment pipeline stages
- Benefits & success metrics
2. Build Automation
- Build server setup
- Build triggering
- Build artifact creation
- Build Logs analysis
🟢 LEVEL 2 — Version Control Integration
3. Webhook & Triggers
- Git webhooks
- Branch-based triggers
- Pull request automation
- Tag-based releases
4. Build Tools
- Jenkins pipeline
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
- CircleCI
🟡 LEVEL 3 — Test Automation
5. Automated Testing
- Unit test execution
- Integration tests
- Test reporting
- Test failure handling
6. Code Quality Gates
- Code coverage analysis
- Linting checks
- Security scanning
- Performance tests
🟡 LEVEL 4 — Artifact Management
7. Build Artifacts
- Artifact creation
- Artifact storage
- Version retention
- Artifact cleanup
8. Docker Image Pipelines
- Image building in CI
- Image scanning
- Registry push
- Image tagging
🟠 LEVEL 5 — Deployment Strategies
9. Deployment Automation
- Deployment triggering
- Environment configuration
- Deployment scripts
- Post-deployment verification
10. Deployment Patterns
- Blue/Green deployments
- Canary releases
- Rolling updates
- Rollback procedures
🟠 LEVEL 6 — Environment Management
11. Multi-Environment Pipelines
- Dev, staging, production
- Environment-specific configs
- Secret management
- Secrets injection
12. Infrastructure as Code
- IaC fundamentals
- Terraform pipelines
- CloudFormation
- Environment provisioning
🔵 LEVEL 7 — Observability & Monitoring
13. Pipeline Observability
- Build metrics
- Deployment metrics
- Pipeline duration tracking
- Success rate monitoring
14. Post-Deployment Monitoring
- Health check verification
- Error rate monitoring
- Performance tracking
- Automatic rollback triggers
🔵 LEVEL 8 — Secure Pipelines
15. Security in CI/CD
- Secret scanning
- Dependency scanning
- SAST/DAST integration
- Access control
16. Compliance & Auditing
- Audit logs
- Compliance checks
- Change tracking
- Integration testing
🔴 LEVEL 9 — Developer Experience
17. Pipeline Efficiency
- Build speed optimization
- Parallel execution
- Cache management
- Feedback loops
18. Pipeline Governance
- Pipeline standardization
- Best practices enforcement
- Documentation
- Team training
⭐ Senior Frontend Focus (Must Master)
- Frontend build optimization in pipelines
- JavaScript linting & testing in CI
- Bundle size checks as quality gates
- Visual regression testing in pipelines
- Frontend E2E tests in CI/CD
- Performance budgets enforcement
- Staging environment for preview deployments