Skill map

Release engineering

Makes releases repeatable, traceable, and safe to promote or roll back. As DevOps Engineer needs it.

Careers that require it

Concrete operational procedures from the courses on this page.

How to run a canary deployment
Limiting the blast radius of a release by serving it to a small representative slice of production and judging it against a concurrent control before wider rollout, including when a workload is a poor canary candidate.
Deployment Strategies
How to execute a blue-green traffic cutover
Replacing a running service with a new version in one reversible switch between two full environments, and the shared-data and schema-compatibility questions that decide whether the reversal is actually safe.
Deployment Strategies