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DevOps Version Control and Practices: Implement Semantic Versioning Principles

In this lab, you’ll practice semantic versioning (semver). When you’re finished, you’ll have the skills and knowledge necessary to communicate compatibility clearly with semver.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 04, 2025
Duration
55m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Get Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Understand the Version of Your Code

    To start the lab, you will become familiar with a provided project that has an existing semantic versioning as expressed in the git tags, and understand the purpose of versioning.

  3. Challenge

    Perform a Patch Update

    A code fix results in a patch, and hence a patch update. You will notice and fix a problem in the code, then will properly increment the version to reflect the change and compatibility state with consumers of the project.

  4. Challenge

    Perform a Minor Update

    Examine the code for an issue and add a new method that the consuming functions will call. Then, examine an issue and make a change that is a version increment judgment call.

  5. Challenge

    Perform a Major Update

    You will change the implementation of the getCurrentPayload method, breaking the interface of the previous version, and necessitating a major version update.

About the author

Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face.

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