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The Deployment Runbook: A One-Page Plan

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-10-capstone/module-03-cloud-deployment-ci-cd/concepts/cluster-05-evidence-of-a-deployed-system/15-the-deployment-runbook-a-one-page-plan-primary.md
  • App: production
  • Semester: semester-10-capstone
  • Module: module-03-cloud-deployment-ci-cd
  • Unit kind: concept
  • Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives

  • Explain The Deployment Runbook: A One-Page Plan as operationalizing the capstone system for repeatable delivery, not as one-off hosting or deployment scripting.
  • Use The Deployment Runbook: A One-Page Plan to reason about environment promotion, pipeline safety, deployment rollback, and operational confidence.
  • Use building-secure-and-reliable-systems, github-actions-in-action, pro-git, the-linux-command-line to connect the learner explanation to release flow, deployment automation, and production-facing delivery habits.

Prerequisites

  • Comfort with a working implementation, version control discipline, and the need to deploy changes repeatably and safely.

Source books

  • building-secure-and-reliable-systems
  • github-actions-in-action
  • pro-git
  • the-linux-command-line

Source routes

Building Secure And Reliable Systems

Github Actions In Action

Pro Git

The Linux Command Line

Supporting curriculum routes

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External enrichment

  • Google SRE Workbook: Canarying Releases (read_if_stuck) - Useful when the learner needs a concrete release-safety model for progressive delivery and rollback.
  • DORA DevOps Research (official_docs_companion) - Connects CI/CD and deployment practice to measurable delivery performance and engineering outcomes.

AI companion modes

  • Explain simply
  • Socratic tutor
  • Challenge my understanding
  • Diagnose my confusion
  • Connect forward / backward

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 The Deployment Runbook: A One-Page Plan, and treat outside material as supporting enrichment only.