Source Control & CI/CD - Hands-On

In the modern software landscape, manual deployment is considered a failure. This course focuses on building the "Automated Highway" that connects developers to the production environment, ensuring speed without sacrificing quality. We begin with a masterclass in Git, moving beyond simple commits into professional workflows. You will learn to navigate branching strategies, perform clean rebases, and resolve the complex merge conflicts that occur in high-velocity teams. The second half of the course shifts into the world of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) using Jenkins and GitHub Actions. You will learn to treat the deployment process as a repeatable, version-controlled pipeline. From managing build artifacts and scheduled jobs to configuring distributed slave nodes for scaling automation, you will build a system that automatically tests and prepares code for release. By the end of this track, you will have moved from "doing the work" to "building the engine that does the work," a fundamental requirement for any professional DevOps role. Every topic follows the same structure: read the concept, attempt the lab, then watch a solution video that walks through professional reasoning at every step. Who this is for: DevOps engineers, developers, and systems professionals with Linux experience who are ready to build automated deployment pipelines and treat infrastructure as code.