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Git branching, pull requests and code review
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FinOps Academy · Enterprise Knowledge Graph
DevOps Delivery Knowledge Graph
Link source control, build, test, security, artefacts, infrastructure, deployment, observability and feedback loops.
Objective: Model software delivery as an end-to-end socio-technical system rather than an isolated pipeline.
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Foundations and prerequisites
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Build, test and artefact-management fundamentals
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Environment, release and change-management concepts
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Technology relationships and dependencies
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GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps orchestrate delivery workflows
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Registries, package feeds and provenance connect build to deployment
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Infrastructure as code, secrets and policy provide environment controls
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Architecture, delivery and operations
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Create reusable pipelines with quality and security gates
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Use progressive delivery, feature flags and rollback patterns
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Feed production telemetry and incidents back into engineering priorities
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Validation and learning evidence
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Trace one change from commit to production evidence
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Measure lead time, deployment frequency, failure rate and recovery time
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Validate permissions, artefact integrity and rollback readiness
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