Source control
- □ Explain branching and pull-request flow
- □ Resolve a merge conflict safely
- □ Use meaningful commits and tags
Readiness checklist
Prove capability before claiming confidence.
Mark an item complete only when you can explain it, perform it and troubleshoot it without relying on a copied sequence.
CI/CD
- □ Explain triggers, jobs, runners and artifacts
- □ Separate build from deployment
- □ Describe rollback and approval gates
Containers
- □ Build and run an image
- □ Explain layers and registries
- □ Diagnose a failing container
Infrastructure as code
- □ Run fmt, validate and plan
- □ Explain state and remote backends
- □ Review destructive changes before apply
Kubernetes
- □ Explain pod, deployment, service and ingress
- □ Read events and logs
- □ Describe probes, scaling and rollout recovery
Operations
- □ Connect logs, metrics and traces
- □ Define actionable alerts
- □ Explain incident response and post-incident learning
Security
- □ Protect secrets and identities
- □ Scan dependencies and images
- □ Apply least privilege and evidence-based controls