Kubernetes & AKS 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.

Practical guidance

Foundations and prerequisites

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Git branching, pull requests and code review

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Build, test and artefact-management fundamentals

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Environment, release and change-management concepts

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Practical guidance

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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03

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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03

Feed production telemetry and incidents back into engineering priorities

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Practical guidance

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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03

Validate permissions, artefact integrity and rollback readiness

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