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Clouds and Infrastructure — CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment)

Overview

CI/CD is the practice of automating code integration, testing, and deployment, enabling faster and more reliable software delivery. CI/CD pipelines streamline the development process by automating tasks such as testing, building, and deploying code, reducing human error, and ensuring consistency. Mastery of CI/CD practices empowers engineers to deploy code confidently, making rapid and safe changes to applications.

🌱 Novice

At this level, engineers understand the basics of CI/CD and can work with simple pipelines for continuous integration.

  • Basic CI/CD Concepts: Familiarity with fundamental CI/CD principles, such as continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous delivery.
  • Simple CI Pipeline Setup: Ability to set up a basic CI pipeline using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI for automated testing on code commits.
  • Automated Testing Basics: Knowledge of configuring automated unit tests to run as part of the CI pipeline to ensure code quality.

Skills

Engineers can set up simple CI pipelines, configure automated tests, and understand the purpose of CI/CD in accelerating software development.

🌿 Intermediate

At this level, engineers can manage more complex CI/CD pipelines and implement deployment processes for multiple environments.

  • Multi-Environment Deployments: Ability to configure pipelines that deploy to different environments (e.g., dev, staging, production) with environment-specific configurations.
  • Artifact Management: Knowledge of generating and storing build artifacts, such as Docker images or compiled binaries, in artifact repositories.
  • Pipeline Optimization: Familiarity with optimizing CI/CD pipelines to reduce build times using caching and parallelization techniques.

Skills

Engineers can manage multi-environment deployments, handle build artifacts, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for improved speed and efficiency.

🌳 Advanced

At this advanced level, engineers are proficient in designing robust CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, secure deployments, and advanced configurations.

  • Automated Testing at Scale: Proficiency in configuring various testing stages, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, within CI/CD pipelines.
  • Secure Deployments and Rollbacks: Ability to implement secure deployment processes with automated rollback mechanisms, minimizing downtime in case of issues.
  • Infrastructure as Code Integration: Experience with integrating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform or CloudFormation, into CI/CD pipelines to provision infrastructure automatically.

Skills

Engineers can design reliable CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, secure deployments, rollbacks, and infrastructure provisioning for consistent environments.

🚀 Expert

An expert in CI/CD can design, implement, and manage highly automated, resilient CI/CD pipelines for large-scale applications.

  • Blue-Green and Canary Deployments: Expertise in implementing advanced deployment strategies (e.g., blue-green, canary) to minimize deployment risk and improve rollback capabilities.
  • Cross-Platform CI/CD Pipelines: Ability to create cross-platform CI/CD pipelines that support multiple architectures (e.g., Linux, Windows, macOS) or cloud providers.
  • Automated Compliance and Security Checks: Proficiency in embedding compliance and security checks (e.g., static analysis, vulnerability scanning) within CI/CD pipelines to enforce standards.
  • Monitoring and Alerting for CI/CD Pipelines: Knowledge of integrating monitoring and alerting within CI/CD pipelines to track pipeline health and quickly respond to failures.
  • Distributed and Multi-Region Deployment Automation: Experience in configuring CI/CD pipelines to deploy across multiple geographic regions for globally distributed applications.

Skills

Engineers can architect CI/CD pipelines for enterprise-level applications, implementing advanced deployment strategies, automated security checks, monitoring, and multi-region support for highly available systems.