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Infrastructure code
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CAREER PROJECT · Advanced · 2 weekends
Containerized Service Platform
Deploy a small service with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, health checks, secrets handling, logging and rollback notes.
DockerCI/CDCloud deploymentInfrastructure as codeMonitoringReliability
DEFINITION OF DONE
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Deployment pipeline
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Health checks
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Runbook
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Rollback demonstration
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RESUME / PORTFOLIO FRAMING
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Automated containerized service delivery with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, health monitoring and documented rollback procedures.
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STRETCH GOALS
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Blue/green deploy
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Autoscaling
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SLO dashboard
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Secret rotation
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