Pipeline Engineering & Automation

About this course

Master the architecture of high-velocity software delivery by designing robust, event-driven CI/CD infrastructure. This course moves beyond basic script execution to focus on the engineering principles required to standardize and scale automation across an enterprise. You will begin by building sophisticated, event-driven remediation frameworks using Azure Functions and Event Grid, designed to auto-heal production environments and drastically reduce mean time to recovery (MTTR). The curriculum transitions into advanced YAML engineering, where you will develop modular, multi-stage template libraries that enforce organizational standards while accelerating team onboarding. You will also implement a rigorous pipeline governance toolchain, utilizing Spectral and pre-commit hooks to validate schemas and security policies at the point of commit. By the end of this course, you will have constructed a complete, automated pipeline framework that minimizes manual intervention, optimizes DORA metrics, and ensures consistent, compliant deployments across multi-cloud environments. This is a hands-on journey into transforming "pipelines as code" into a scalable, self-healing ecosystem.

Course objectives

• construct a complete, automated pipeline framework
• standardize and scale automation practices across an organization
• optimize deployment practices to enhance DORA metrics