CI/CD Roadmap Sheet

1) Importance of CI/CD in DevOps

● Continuous Integration (CI): Ensures frequent code integration, automated testing,
early bug detection, and faster development cycles.

● Continuous Delivery (CD): Provides automated deployments to staging environments,

ensuring software is always in a deployable state.

● Continuous Deployment (CD): Extends delivery by automating deployment to

production.

● In DevOps:

○ Reduces manual work and human error.

○ Accelerates release cycles and feedback loops.

○ Improves collaboration between dev and ops teams.

○ Enhances reliability, scalability, and quality of software delivery.

2) Important CI/CD Tools

● Most Widely Used: Jenkins (open-source, plugin-rich, community-driven).

● Other Important Tools:

○ GitLab CI/CD (integrated with GitLab).

○ GitHub Actions (integrated with GitHub).

○ CircleCI (cloud-native, efficient pipelines).

○ Travis CI (simple, GitHub-centric).

○ Azure DevOps Pipelines (Microsoft ecosystem).

○ AWS CodePipeline (AWS-native automation).

 ○ ArgoCD & Tekton (Kubernetes-native CD tools).

○ Spinnaker (multi-cloud continuous delivery).

3) Important Interview Questions for CI/CD

Beginner (10 Questions)
1. What is CI/CD, and why is it important in DevOps?

2. Difference between Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous

Deployment.

3. What are the benefits of automating builds and deployments?

4. Explain a typical CI/CD pipeline workflow.

5. What is a build pipeline?

6. How does CI/CD improve collaboration in DevOps?

7. What is the difference between CI/CD and Agile?

8. What are some common challenges in CI/CD adoption?

9. What tools do you know for CI/CD?

10. What are some best practices for CI/CD pipelines?

Intermediate (10 Questions)

1. Explain how you would design a CI/CD pipeline for a microservices-based application.

2. What are pipeline-as-code concepts, and why are they important?

3. Difference between declarative and scripted pipelines (in Jenkins).

4. How would you handle secrets and sensitive data in CI/CD?

5. How do you ensure quality in a CI/CD pipeline?

6. What is canary deployment vs blue-green deployment?

7. How do you implement rollback in CI/CD pipelines?

 8. How do you integrate CI/CD pipelines with monitoring and logging tools?

9. Explain the importance of automated testing in CI/CD pipelines.

10. What are environment promotion strategies in CI/CD?

Advanced (10 Questions)

1. Explain how to scale CI/CD pipelines for large teams and multiple services.

2. How do you ensure security in a CI/CD pipeline (DevSecOps)?

3. What is GitOps, and how does it relate to CI/CD?

4. How do you implement CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes deployments?

5. Explain the role of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in CI/CD.

6. How do you optimize CI/CD pipeline performance?

7. How to manage dependencies across multiple microservices pipelines?

8. What is chaos engineering in CI/CD pipelines?

9. How do you integrate compliance checks in CI/CD pipelines?

10. Explain advanced deployment strategies: A/B testing, feature toggles, etc.

4) Important Jenkins-Specific Interview Questions

1. What is Jenkins, and why is it popular in CI/CD?

2. Explain the architecture of Jenkins.

3. Difference between Jenkins freestyle project and pipeline.

4. What is a Jenkinsfile?

5. Difference between declarative and scripted Jenkins pipeline.

6. How do you install and manage Jenkins plugins?

7. How does Jenkins handle distributed builds (master-slave/agent architecture)?

 8. How do you secure a Jenkins server?

9. How do you trigger Jenkins pipelines automatically?

10. How do you integrate Jenkins with GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud services?

5) Best CI/CD Projects for Resume

1. End-to-End CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins – Automate build, test, and deploy of a
sample web app.

2. CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions – Deploy containerized app to AWS EKS or GKE.

3. Blue-Green Deployment Project – Implement blue-green strategy with Jenkins +

Kubernetes.

4. Microservices CI/CD – Build pipelines for multiple microservices with Docker,

Kubernetes, and ArgoCD.

5. CI/CD with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Automate provisioning using Terraform +

Jenkins + Ansible.

6. Automated Security Pipeline (DevSecOps) – Integrate SonarQube, Snyk, or Trivy

scans into a CI/CD pipeline.

7. Monitoring-Integrated Pipeline – Set up CI/CD pipelines with Prometheus + Grafana

monitoring.

8. Multi-Cloud Deployment Project – CI/CD pipelines to deploy apps across AWS and
Azure using Jenkins.

9. Salesforce CI/CD Pipeline – Automated deployments of Salesforce metadata via

Jenkins.

10. Serverless CI/CD Project – Automate deployment of AWS Lambda or Azure Functions
using CI/CD.

6) Free Resources
● Best YouTube Channels for CI/CD & Jenkins:
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● Important Documentation Links:

Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD

7) Certifications for CI/CD

Jenkins
● Jenkins Engineer Certification (CJE by CloudBees)

● Certified Jenkins Platform Engineer (CJPE)

GitLab & GitHub CI/CD

● GitLab Certified CI/CD Associate

● GitHub Actions Certification (community-driven, GitHub Learning Lab)

Cloud CI/CD Certifications
● AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (covers AWS CodePipeline,
CodeBuild, CodeDeploy)

● Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (covers Azure DevOps Pipelines)

● Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer (covers CI/CD and SRE practices in
GCP)

Kubernetes + CI/CD
● CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)

● CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer)

● ArgoCD/Tekton community certifications (optional, but great for GitOps-based

pipelines)