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Skills · CI/CD

CI/CD

15 skills in 4 steps, from “Understand and build a delivery chain, whatever the tool” to “Make a GitLab CI pipeline reliable”.

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• 15 skills to acquire in this domain
• 4 steps in the order you learn them
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In the order you learn them: each step builds on the previous one. Your status is computed in your browser, from what you have read and passed (quizzes, labs).

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1. 1

   Understand and build a delivery chain, whatever the tool

   4 skills

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   • Read a pipeline and tell what it does on each event 4 lessons · ~2 h 15 · then its quiz
   • Write the integration stages in the repository and make them fail usefully 3 lessons · ~2 h 00 · then its quiz
   • Build an artifact once and promote it across environments 2 lessons · ~2 h 00 · then its quiz
   • Spot the risks of a delivery chain 2 lessons · ~55 min · then its quiz
2. 2

   Build and run CI

   5 skills

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   • Write a first pipeline and read its failures 5 lessons · ~3 h 25 · then its quiz · a lab
   • Design dynamic pipelines (variables, conditions, reuse) 10 lessons · ~7 h 10 · then its quiz
   • Deliver to environments, artifacts included 7 lessons · ~3 h 40 · then its quiz
   • Speed up and debug a pipeline 9 lessons · ~4 h 45 · then its quiz
   • Govern and tool an organization's CI 12 lessons · ~7 h 20 · then its quiz
3. 3

   Secure the delivery chain

   5 skills

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   • Secure a pipeline definition: permissions, secrets, pinning and triggers 15 lessons · ~9 h 15 · then its quiz · a lab
   • Audit a CI workflow and model its threats 4 lessons · ~2 h 45 · then its quiz
   • Harden and isolate CI runners 8 lessons · ~4 h 50 · then its quiz
   • Produce an artifact's SBOM and qualify its vulnerabilities with a VEX 2 lessons · ~1 h 50 · then its quiz · a lab
   • Sign an artifact, attest its provenance and verify it before deployment 5 lessons · ~2 h 50 · then its quiz · a lab
4. 4

   Make a GitLab CI pipeline reliable

   1 skill

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   • Make a GitLab CI pipeline resilient to transient errors: retry, timeout, interruptible, resource_group 2 lessons · ~1 h 35 · then its quiz

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