Book Exercise Lanes and External Exercises

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/exercises.md
• App: production
• Semester: semester-09-cloud-devops
• Module: module-04-ci-cd-pipelines-release-engineering
• Unit kind: exercise
• Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives

• Explain Book Exercise Lanes and External Exercises as a software-delivery and risk-reduction system, not just automation for builds and tests.
• Use Book Exercise Lanes and External Exercises to reason about feedback speed, artifact integrity, rollout safety, and release recoverability.
• Use git-from-the-bottom-up, pro-git 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

• git-from-the-bottom-up
• pro-git

Source routes

Git From The Bottom Up

• /books/git-from-the-bottom-up via Git from the bottom up: Branching and rebase

Pro Git

• /books/pro-git via Pro Git: Branch Management / Long-Running Branches, Pro Git: Listing tags / deleting tags, Pro Git: Pushing to Tracking Branches, Pro Git: Rebasing, cherry-pick, and preparing a release, Pro Git: Signing commits and tags, Pro Git: Tagging, Pro Git: Topic Branches and Remote Branches

Supporting curriculum routes

No supporting curriculum routes linked yet.

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 assembled from multiple canonical book routes. Use the listed source books as the primary conceptual spine for Book Exercise Lanes and External Exercises, and treat outside material as supporting enrichment only.