DevOps, SRE & Cloud
CI / CD
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- What is a CI/CD pipeline and what are the key stages you'd expect in one?
- How would you handle secrets like API keys and database passwords in a cloud application and its deployment pipeline?Go Pro
- What is GitOps and how does it differ from a push-based deployment model?Go Pro
- When would you choose a canary deployment over a blue-green deployment, and how do you decide it's safe to keep shifting traffic?Go Pro
- Treat the CI/CD pipeline itself as part of the attack surface. What makes it such a high-value target, and how do you reason about hardening it?Go Pro
- What is immutable infrastructure and what problems does it solve compared to mutable, in-place deployments?Go Pro
- A developer comes to you frustrated that the platform team's CI/CD pipeline takes 45 minutes to run their tests. They want an exception to bypass certain checks. How do you handle this?Go Pro
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