Environments, Approvals, and Change Management
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-05-quality-gates-and-safety/14-environments-approvals-change-management-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 Environments, Approvals, and Change Management as a software-delivery and risk-reduction system, not just automation for builds and tests.
- Use Environments, Approvals, and Change Management to reason about feedback speed, artifact integrity, rollout safety, and release recoverability.
- Use
pro-gitto 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
Source routes
Pro Git
- /books/pro-git via
Pro Git: Enforcing commit format / ACL via hooks,Pro Git: Server-side hooks -- policy enforcement before merge,Pro Git: Server-side hooks — policy enforcement before merge,Pro Git: Testing it out -- policy enforcement in practice,Pro Git: Testing it out — policy enforcement in practice
Supporting curriculum routes
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External enrichment
- Google Cloud: CI/CD and Automation (
official_docs_companion) - Grounds CI/CD ideas in an end-to-end automation reference instead of tool-by-tool folklore. - Google SRE Workbook: Canarying Releases (
read_if_stuck) - Shows how release engineering decisions affect safety, confidence, and rollback strategy in production.
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. Its canonical source backbone is the referenced book pro-git, and outside material should only clarify or strengthen that backbone.