Pipeline as Code: GitHub Actions and GitLab CI

This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.

Curriculum surface

• Open learner-facing unit
• Curriculum path: content/curriculum/production/semester-09-cloud-devops/module-04-ci-cd-pipelines-release-engineering/concepts/cluster-02-the-ci-pipeline/06-pipeline-as-code-primary.md
• App: production
• Semester: semester-09-cloud-devops
• Module: module-04-ci-cd-pipelines-release-engineering
• Unit kind: concept
• Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives

• Explain Pipeline as Code: GitHub Actions and GitLab CI as a software-delivery and risk-reduction system, not just automation for builds and tests.
• Use Pipeline as Code: GitHub Actions and GitLab CI to reason about feedback speed, artifact integrity, rollout safety, and release recoverability.
• Use pro-git, the-linux-command-line to connect the learner page to pipeline stages, deployment strategies, and production-release discipline.

Prerequisites

• Comfort with containers, environment promotion, and the need for repeatable, low-risk software delivery.

Source books

• pro-git
• the-linux-command-line

Source routes

Pro Git

• /books/pro-git via Pro Git: Basic hooks usage and summary, Pro Git: Enforcing a commit-message format / user-based ACL, Pro Git: Hooks -- overview, Pro Git: Hooks — overview, Pro Git: Other client hooks and server-side hooks

The Linux Command Line

• /books/the-linux-command-line via The Linux Command Line: Shell functions and local variables, The Linux Command Line: What are shell scripts

Supporting curriculum routes

No supporting curriculum routes linked yet.

External enrichment

• Google Cloud: CI/CD and Automation (official_docs_companion) - Useful when the learner needs a concrete production-oriented reference for pipeline automation and deployment flow.
• Google SRE Workbook: Canarying Releases (read_if_stuck) - Connects release engineering to risk reduction, staged rollout, and safe recovery decisions.

AI companion modes

• Explain simply
• Socratic tutor
• Challenge my understanding
• Diagnose my confusion
• Generate extra practice

Source-of-truth note

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance assembled from multiple canonical book routes. Use the listed source books as the primary conceptual spine for Pipeline as Code: GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, and treat outside material as supporting enrichment only.