CI/CD Tutorial

1. CI/CD Introduction

What Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment mean, and why automated pipelines matter.

2. GitHub Actions Basics

A complete GitHub Actions workflow that checks out code, installs dependencies, and runs tests on every push and PR.

3. Building a Full CI/CD Pipeline

Extending a workflow into build, test and deploy stages with secrets and branch-based deployment.

4. Advanced Pipeline Patterns

Matrix builds across multiple versions and operating systems, and dependency caching for faster builds.

5. Security Scanning in Pipelines

Dependency vulnerability scanning and secret scanning, with real GitHub Actions workflow steps.

6. Deployment Strategies

Rolling, blue-green, and canary deployments explained with their trade-offs.

7. CI/CD Interview Questions

Common CI/CD interview questions on pipelines, secrets management, and deployment strategies.