Deployment · Advanced
Deployment & Observability Studio
Wire CI/CD that humans trust: environments, secrets, rollbacks, and dashboards that show whether a release actually worked.
4 weeks · 26 hours · Blended — evening labs · Wed & Fri · 18:00–20:30 GMT
From £980 GBP · Certificate on completion
Overview
You will stand up pipelines with explicit promotion gates, practise incident communication, and connect logs to customer-impacting metrics.
What you work through
- GitHub Actions patterns with reusable workflows
- Blue/green vs canary — choosing based on risk appetite
- Secrets management without copying `.env` files over Slack
- Infrastructure-as-code snippets with Terraform-light introduction
- Synthetic checks vs real user monitoring — when each matters
- Runbooks that ops and dev can share without jargon mismatch
- Hyper Sys post-deploy review template tied to Build Review Lab
Outcomes
- Ship a pipeline with automated smoke tests and manual approval where needed
- Draft an incident timeline using structured log queries
- Explain rollback criteria to a non-technical stakeholder
Lead contact
Imogen Clarke
Career coach alumni mentor — SRE background across UK SaaS scale-ups.
Practical questions
Cloud provider?
Examples use AWS-flavoured services conceptually; you can map to Azure/GCP with provided reading.
Kubernetes?
Mentioned but not exercised — we focus on release mechanics most small teams touch first.
Costs?
Cloud spend during exercises is yours; we keep tasks within free-tier where possible.
Participant notes
Deployment & Observability Studio forced our two-person team to document rollbacks — boring win, huge stress drop.
Ready to talk scope? Request information — we respond within two business days for general enquiries. See Money-Back Policy for cooling-off terms.