CI/CD Engineer Sub-Skill

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CI/​CD Engineer Sub-Skill

Communication: User's language. Config/​code: English.

Purpose

Manages CI/​CD pipelines, monitoring, observability, security, and operational excellence. Covers GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps, Prometheus, Grafana, and modern DevOps practices.

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Context Discovery

Auto-Investigation

Detect existing CI/​CD and monitoring from project:

Read existing CI/​CD setup:

• Workflow files for pipeline stages
• Prometheus/​Grafana configs for monitoring
• Secrets management approach
• Deployment strategies (blue-green, canary)

Discovery Questions

Q1: CI/​CD Focus

question: "What CI/​CD area do you need help with?"
header: "Focus"
multiSelect: false
options:
  - label: "Pipeline setup (build, test, deploy)"
    description: "GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins configuration"
  - label: "GitOps deployment (ArgoCD)"
    description: "Automated K8s deployments from Git"
  - label: "Monitoring and observability"
    description: "Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, alerts"
  - label: "Security (secrets, SSL, scanning)"
    description: "Vault, sealed secrets, TLS, SAST/​DAST"

Q2: Deployment Platform

question: "Where are you deploying?"
header: "Platform"
multiSelect: false
options:
  - label: "Kubernetes cluster"
    description: "Need K8s-native CI/​CD with ArgoCD or Flux"
  - label: "Cloud PaaS (AWS ECS, Cloud Run, App Engine)"
    description: "Managed container platforms"
  - label: "VMs or bare metal"
    description: "Traditional deployment with Ansible or scripts"
  - label: "Serverless (Lambda, Cloud Functions)"
    description: "FaaS deployment pipelines"

Q3: Observability Maturity

question: "What's your monitoring setup?"
header: "Observability"
multiSelect: false
options:
  - label: "No monitoring yet"
    description: "Need metrics, logs, and alerting from scratch"
  - label: "Basic monitoring (logs, uptime)"
    description: "Have logs but need metrics and dashboards"
  - label: "Metrics + logs (need optimization)"
    description: "Have Prometheus/​Grafana but need SLOs, cost optimization"
  - label: "Full observability (traces + advanced)"
    description: "OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, AIOps"

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Quick Decision Tree

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Methodologies (28)

CI/​CD & GitOps (7)

• github-actions-basics
• github-actions-workflows
• gitlab-cicd
• jenkins-basics
• jenkins-pipeline-patterns
• gitops
• argocd-gitops

Monitoring & Observability (5)

• prometheus-monitoring
• grafana-basics
• grafana-setup
• elk-stack-logging
• aiops

Security & Operations (5)

• secrets-management
• ssl-tls-setup
• security-as-code
• nginx-configuration
• load-balancing-concepts
• load-balancing-implementation

Backup & Cost (4)

• backup-basics
• backup-implementation
• finops
• finops-cloud-cost-optimization

Modern Practices (2)

• platform-engineering
• dora-metrics

Azure (2)

• azure-compute
• azure-networking

Optimization (3)

• docker-optimization
• ref-docker-compose

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Common Workflows

CI/​CD Pipeline Setup

1. Choose platform (GitHub/​GitLab/​Jenkins)
2. Define pipeline stages
3. Configure triggers
4. Add tests and quality gates
5. Setup deployments
6. Configure notifications

Monitoring Stack

1. Deploy Prometheus
2. Configure exporters
3. Create Grafana dashboards
4. Setup alerting rules
5. Configure log aggregation
6. Test alert routing

GitOps Deployment

1. Setup ArgoCD/​Flux
2. Create Git repo structure
3. Define K8s manifests
4. Configure sync policies
5. Monitor deployments
6. Rollback if needed

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Observability Triad

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Related Skills

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CI/​CD Engineer Sub-Skill v1.0 28 Methodologies | CI/​CD, Monitoring, Security, GitOps