CI/CD course: programme and progress tracking

Course · Beginner to intermediate

Introduction to CI/CD pipelines

Understand a delivery chain, write its stages, promote an artifact and spot its risks, before choosing a tool

• 1 levels
• 7 modules
• 23 lessons
• 4 labs
• 21 quizzes
• 13h

Start Lesson: CI/CD pipelines: the model before the tool

Recommended before you start: Git (in French)

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Welcome to your CI/CD course. This page lists the programme in reading order: a core of four modules to understand a delivery chain, write its stages, promote an artifact between environments and spot its risks, then two optional modules on organisation and supply chain security.

The course teaches the model before the tool, so nothing below assumes GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins; you pick one afterwards, knowing what you are asking it to do. Every lesson is now translated: the list holds the twenty-three, from the first chain that runs on a push to the level exam, which hands you a broken delivery chain and asks you to repair it.

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1. 01 Présentation 0 / 1

   • lesson CI/CD pipelines: the model before the tool 10 min

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Understanding and building a delivery chain

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You read an unfamiliar pipeline, write its stages in the repository, promote the same artifact from staging to production and list the chain's risks.

1. 02 Comprendre une chaîne de livraison 0 / 2

   • lesson quiz What is a CI/CD pipeline? Jobs, runners, cache and artifacts 25 min
   • lesson quiz CI, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment: which level to choose? 20 min
2. 03 Intégrer en continu 0 / 3

   • Read a pipeline and tell what it does on each event

     • lesson lab quiz CI/CD pipeline steps and triggers 1h

   • Write the integration stages in the repository and make them fail usefully

     • lesson quiz Testing strategies: the safety net of DevOps 30 min
     • lesson quiz CI/CD best practices: the invariants of a reliable pipeline 30 min
3. 04 Livrer vers des environnements 0 / 4

   • Build an artifact once and promote it across environments

     • lesson lab quiz Artifacts: build once, name, store, retrieve 55 min
     • lesson lab quiz Environments and promotion: from staging to production 1h05

   • Choose a branching model and a delivery strategy

     • lesson quiz Deployment strategies: blue-green, canary, rolling 30 min
     • lesson quiz GitOps: principles, ArgoCD vs Flux and implementation 30 min
4. 05 Sécuriser et faire vivre la chaîne 0 / 4

   • Spot the risks of a delivery chain

     • lesson quiz Securing secrets in your CI/CD pipelines 30 min

   • Secure a pipeline definition: permissions, secrets, pinning and triggers

     • lesson quiz Securing a CI/CD pipeline: the four control surfaces 30 min

   • Read a pipeline and tell what it does on each event

     • lesson quiz CI/CD anti-patterns: recognising and fixing pipeline mistakes 30 min

   • Context and landmarks

     • lab CI/CD exam: repair a broken delivery chain 1h05

Level validation: Challenge · Level exam: repair a broken delivery chain

Outside the levels · Going deeper

1. 06 Organiser la livraison 0 / 5

   • lesson quiz optional Modern CI/CD pipeline architectures: branches, repositories, artifacts 30 min
   • lesson quiz optional Trunk-Based Development and Git branching models 30 min
   • lesson quiz optional Feature Flags: decoupling deployment and release 30 min
   • lesson quiz optional Why CI/CD pipelines fail: the organisational causes 20 min
   • lesson quiz optional DORA metrics: measuring DevOps performance 40 min

Outside the levels · Going deeper

1. 07 Approfondir la sécurité de la chaîne 0 / 4

   • lesson quiz optional OWASP Top 10 CI/CD: the 10 security risks of pipelines 45 min
   • lesson quiz optional Implicit trust in CI/CD pipelines 25 min
   • lesson quiz optional Blocking a pipeline does not improve security: gates and guardrails 20 min
   • lesson quiz optional From SLSA provenance to decision: blocking non-compliant artifacts 30 min

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