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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.
Context Discovery
Auto-Investigation
Detect existing CI/CD and monitoring from project:
| Signal | How to Check | What It Tells Us |
|--------|--------------|------------------|
| GitHub Actions | Glob("**/.github/workflows/*.yml") | GitHub CI/CD |
| GitLab CI | Glob("**/.gitlab-ci.yml") | GitLab pipelines |
| Jenkins | Glob("**/Jenkinsfile") | Jenkins pipelines |
| ArgoCD | Glob("**/argocd/*") or Grep("argocd") | GitOps deployment |
| Prometheus | Glob("**/prometheus*.yml") | Metrics collection |
| Grafana | Glob("**/grafana/*") or Grep("grafana") | Dashboards setup |
| ELK/Loki | Grep("elasticsearch\\|logstash\\|loki") | Log aggregation |
| Secrets | Glob("**/vault/*") or Grep("sealed-secrets") | Secrets management |
| SSL certs | Glob("**/cert-manager/*") or Grep("letsencrypt") | TLS automation |
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"
Quick Decision Tree
| If you need... | Use | File | |---------------|-----|------| | CI/CD | | GitHub Actions | github-actions-basics, github-actions-workflows | github-actions-basics.md | | GitLab CI | gitlab-cicd | gitlab-cicd.md | | Jenkins | jenkins-basics, jenkins-pipeline-patterns | jenkins-basics.md | | GitOps | gitops, argocd-gitops | argocd-gitops.md | | Monitoring & Observability | | Metrics | prometheus-monitoring | prometheus-monitoring.md | | Dashboards | grafana-basics, grafana-setup | grafana-basics.md | | Logs | elk-stack-logging | elk-stack-logging.md | | AIOps | aiops | aiops.md | | Security & Operations | | Secrets | secrets-management | secrets-management.md | | SSL/TLS | ssl-tls-setup | ssl-tls-setup.md | | Security as Code | security-as-code | security-as-code.md | | Nginx | nginx-configuration | nginx-configuration.md | | Load balancing | load-balancing-concepts, load-balancing-implementation | load-balancing-concepts.md | | Backup & Cost | | Backups | backup-basics, backup-implementation | backup-basics.md | | Cost optimization | finops, finops-cloud-cost-optimization | finops.md | | Modern Practices | | Platform Engineering | platform-engineering | platform-engineering.md | | DORA metrics | dora-metrics | dora-metrics.md | | Azure | | Azure compute | azure-compute | azure-compute.md | | Azure networking | azure-networking | azure-networking.md | | Optimization | | Docker optimization | docker-optimization | docker-optimization.md | | Docker Compose ref | ref-docker-compose | ref-docker-compose.md |
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
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
Observability Triad
| Pillar | Tools | Files | |--------|-------|-------| | Metrics | Prometheus, Grafana | prometheus-monitoring.md, grafana-*.md | | Logs | ELK, Loki | elk-stack-logging.md | | Traces | Jaeger, Tempo | (use with monitoring stack) |
Related Skills
| Skill | Relationship | |-------|--------------| | faion-devops-engineer | Parent skill | | faion-infrastructure-engineer | Sibling (infrastructure and cloud) |
CI/CD Engineer Sub-Skill v1.0 28 Methodologies | CI/CD, Monitoring, Security, GitOps