Part VII — Cloud & DevOps

Part VII helps experienced QA Engineers become Quality Engineers who can reason about the systems that build, configure, package, promote, deploy, verify, recover, and operate software changes.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 — Cloud & DevOps Quality Engineering: Delivery Systems, Evidence, and Boundaries

   170 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Parts I, III, and V; risk-informed testing and automated-feedback fundamentals

2. Chapter 2 — Environment Strategy, Configuration, and Secret Boundaries

   180 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapter 1; Part II configuration, validation, and diagnostic foundations

3. Chapter 3 — Container Artifacts, Runtime Assumptions, and Reproducible Delivery

   180 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–2; Part II configuration and dependency foundations

4. Chapter 4 — Infrastructure as Code: Change Evidence, Review, and Drift

   190 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–3; Part II Git, review, configuration, and error-handling foundations

5. Chapter 5 — Delivery Pipelines as Quality Systems

   200 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–4; Part V continuous-feedback strategy

6. Chapter 6 — Deployment Strategies, Progressive Delivery, and Release Exposure

   205 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–5; Part IV state and compatibility reasoning

7. Chapter 7 — Deployment Verification and Release Evidence

   200 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–6; Part III evidence and regression strategy; Part V diagnostics

8. Chapter 8 — Rollback, Roll-Forward, and Recovery Decisions

   205 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 4–7; Part IV state and asynchronous behaviour; Part VI reconciliation concepts where data state is affected

9. Chapter 9 — Release Readiness, Promotion, and Operational Handoffs

   195 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

   Prerequisites: Chapters 1–8

10. Chapter 10 — DevOps Collaboration, Delivery Learning, and Sustainable Change

    185 minutes, plus the practical exercise · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

    Prerequisites: Chapters 1–9; Part I engineering culture; Part III production learning

11. Chapter 11 — Capstone: Cloud & DevOps Quality Strategy and Release Evidence Portfolio

    360 minutes, plus portfolio refinement · Status: Draft · Version: 0.1.0

    Prerequisites: Chapters 1–10