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CL-312 Cloud & Platform

CI/CD Engineering

Design pipelines teams trust: build/test/deploy stages, artifact management, environment promotion, secrets in pipelines, deployment strategies from rolling to canary, and pipeline-as-code hygiene — with a working pipeline from commit to monitored deployment as the exit ticket.

B3Practitioner
6modules
41skill atoms
5role journeys
Curriculum

What this course covers.

6 modules, 41 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1Pipeline Architecture7 skill atoms
stagestriggersfan-in/outrunner pools & job isolationdependency caching between runsmatrix buildsconcurrency limits and queuing
2Quality Gates7 skill atoms
test tierscoverage honestyblocking rulesunit, integration & e2e splitflaky test quarantinestatic analysis & lint gatesrequired checks on the PR
3Artifacts & Versioning7 skill atoms
registriesimmutabilityprovenancesemantic versioning with build metadatacontainer digest pinningretention & cleanup policiesSBOM generation and signing
4Deployment Strategies7 skill atoms
rollingblue-greencanary criteriareadiness gates during rollouttraffic weight steps & bake timeautomated rollback on error-rate breachdatabase migration ordering
5Secrets & Safety6 skill atoms
vault integrationleast-privilege runnersOIDC federation instead of static keysmasked variables & log scrubbingenvironment approval gatessecrets withheld from fork builds
6Commit-to-Prod Lab7 skill atoms
full pipeline shipped and demonstratedcommit triggers build & testimage pushed and digest recordedstaging deploy with smoke testsapproval-gated production promotionpost-deploy health verificationrehearsed rollback
Where it fits

CL-312 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 5 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Cloud Engineer

Professional stage
CL-304CL-312CL-202

Platform / DevOps Engineer

Practitioner stage
CL-311CL-312CL-318

DevSecOps Engineer

Foundation stage
CL-304CL-312SEC-101

Data Engineer

Practitioner stage
CL-311CL-312CL-224

Platform Engineer (IDP)

Practitioner stage
CL-305CL-312CL-319

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B3.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams
Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

Next step

Run CL-312 for your team.

This course runs at several lengths depending on how deep you need to go and how much of it your people already have. Tell us who is being trained and we will scope it.

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