deployment

Deployment: Docker & Cloud Baselines

Package services, wire health checks, and deploy with repeatable pipelines you can defend in review.

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MYR 1,540 · 6 weeks · evenings

Part-time cohort live-online

Outline

Containers, minimal images, secrets handling, and environment parity are practiced with deliberate friction. You will break things in staging before touching production-like settings.

Inclusions

  • Multi-stage Dockerfiles with size budgets
  • Health/readiness probes that mean something
  • GitHub Actions or GitLab CI templates
  • Secrets via environment patterns (no keys in repo)
  • Blue/green discussion with rollback triggers
  • Observability hooks for deploy events
  • Runbook template you can reuse

Outcomes

  1. Ship a containerised service to a preview environment
  2. Write a rollback note for a failed release
  3. Pass a mentor checklist on secrets hygiene

Participant notes

“Deployment: Docker & Cloud baselines gave us a shared Dockerfile review ritual — quoted verbatim in our internal guild.”
— Iman · SRE intern
“Rollback notes felt tedious until our staging drill proved their worth.”
— Jo · Startup engineering group

Straight answers

Which cloud?
Examples use a mainstream provider with free tiers; concepts transfer.
Kubernetes?
Mentioned as a next step, not taught hands-on in this cohort.
Cost exposure?
You may incur small cloud charges; we provide spend guardrails but not reimbursements.