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CircleCI

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This learning path is designed to transform engineers into CI/CD experts, capable of building, optimizing, and securing high-performance pipelines. You will master everything from fundamental configuration and complex workflow orchestration to critical efficiency techniques like caching and parallelism, ensuring rapid and resilient delivery. Successfully complete this track to gain the practical skills needed to drive DevOps velocity and maintain robust security standards in your organization.

**CircleCI** Getting Started with CIrcleCI (video course) CircleCI Advanced Configuration (video course) Optimizing CircleCI Pipeline Performance (video course) Secure CI/CD and Deployments with CircleCI (video course)

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CircleCI

This learning path provides the fundamental knowledge and advanced techniques required to design, implement, and optimize robust Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using CircleCI.

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What You'll Learn
  • The ability to design and deploy complex, multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI workflows and configuration reference components.
  • The capability to implement advanced caching and resource management techniques to effectively reduce project build times.
  • Proficiency in securing pipelines using contexts, environment variables, and necessary administrative controls.
  • Competence in leveraging reusable configuration components (Orbs) to standardize and accelerate project setup across diverse teams.
  • The expertise to troubleshoot pipeline failures, interpret build metrics, and apply official CircleCI optimization best practices.
Prerequisites
  • Learners must be proficient with source control systems (specifically Git), possess working knowledge of fundamental software build processes for their chosen language (e.g., Node, Python, Java), and hold an understanding of the basics of container images and Docker.
Related topics
  • YAML
  • Git
  • Version Control
  • Containers
  • Shell Scripting
  • Automation
  • DevOps
  • IT Ops
  • CircleCI
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