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Pipeline Foundations with GitLab CI

Wire up repeatable build and deploy stages with guarded promotions, cache hygiene, and artifact hygiene for platform teams.

Duration
6 weeks
Format
Cohort lab nights (KST evening)
Skill focus
Intermediate
Project intensity
High

420,000 KRW

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Program narrative

This track focuses on turning a scattered script folder into a maintainable pipeline library. You will wire runners, isolate secrets, and practice rollback drills on a shared lab cluster. Mentors annotate your YAML with concrete edits so you leave with a pattern you can reuse on the next service.

Included focus areas

  • • Runner sizing and queue tuning on shared infrastructure
  • • Cache and artifact policies that keep builds fast
  • • Promotion gates with manual approvals for production paths
  • • Blue-green style deploy hooks without touching vendor dashboards
  • • Structured logging that maps to on-call playbooks
  • • Quality gates that block merges on flaky integration suites
  • • Post-deploy smoke checks wired as first-class stages

Outcomes you can show

  1. Ship a two-environment pipeline with audited promotions
  2. Publish a reusable template library for sibling teams
  3. Document rollback steps that match the automation you built

Mentor of record

Portrait for Hana Sato

Hana Sato

Former platform lead for a mid-sized SaaS shop; now coaches teams on boring, reliable delivery.

Participant notes

The module on cache discipline finally stopped our mystery rebuilds. Still tightening secrets rotation, but the skeleton is solid.
Leo · Release engineer · 5/5 · internal survey
Mentor comments on my promotion stages were blunt in a good way. I rewrote two jobs and cut average pipeline time noticeably.
Mira

Straight answers

No. You start in a shared lab tenant. Bring your own cluster only if you want parity homework reviewed.