Job-Ready Software Engineering / 06

CI/CD, cloud basics, and production readiness

35 minutes · Developers and QA professionals

The work after the pull request

Make “ready to release” concrete

A simple pipeline

Push
Build
Test
Package
Deploy
Verify

Environments are contracts

Local
Test / CI
Staging
Production
Configuration and secrets
Observability

What production readiness means

Tests pass
Configuration is known
Logs are useful
Failure is detectable
Rollback is possible
Owner is clear

Demo: read a failing pipeline

Find the first failed command
Read the error
Identify relevant input
Fix and rerun

Rollback is a feature

How do we know it is broken?
Who decides?
What version comes back?
What data changed?

Pause: write the checklist

Verification
Configuration
Monitoring
Rollback
Ownership

Your artifact

Pipeline diagram
CI failure analysis
Production-readiness checklist

Next step

Make the artifact.

Publish your work, then continue to the next lesson.