What you'll learn

Manual builds and deployments slow development velocity, introduce human error, and create deployment anxiety across engineering teams. In this course, Getting Started with CircleCI, you'll gain the ability to design and implement automated CI/CD pipelines that execute consistently from code commit through production deployment. First, you'll explore CircleCI's architecture, connecting your repository and triggering your first automated pipeline using the .circleci/config.yml configuration file. Next, you'll discover how to construct multi-step jobs leveraging Docker, machine, and macOS executors while implementing proper build sequences with checkout, dependency installation, testing, and artifact generation. Finally, you'll learn how to troubleshoot configuration errors, interpret pipeline logs, and validate your YAML syntax using CircleCI's CLI and web dashboard. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of CircleCI pipeline fundamentals needed to automate your build and deployment processes, catch integration failures early, and deploy with confidence.