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CI/CD Shipping Lab
AUD 720 (informational)
Responsible mentor
Theo Martin
Deployment labs lead; SRE-flavoured without the gatekeeping.
Outcomes
- Green pipeline on a sample monorepo slice
- Written rollback recipe tested once
- Checklist your team could adopt Monday morning
Description
You wire lint, test, and deploy stages with explicit gates. Rollback drills use tagged releases and feature flags discussed ethically (no dark patterns).
Inside the track
- GitHub Actions (or equivalent) templates
- Secret handling patterns
- Preview environments for UI branches
- Canary discussion with metrics stubs
- Release note automation experiment
- Ownership matrix for on-call pretend week
Reviews
Preview env module from CI/CD Shipping Lab cut our “works on my machine” threads by a lot.
FAQ
We show one vendor deeply and map concepts to others in office hours.
Possible with WSL2; macOS and Linux are smoother for scripts provided.
Compliance certifications and procurement negotiations are out of scope.