Lesson 2 — Implementing backup and recovery strategies in CD environments

Prerequisites and goals

Prerequisites

Theoretical prerequisites

This lesson assumes that you already know the following:

  • Understand common CI workflow failure points and causes
  • Learn systematic issue diagnosis in CI pipelines
  • Master CI tool troubleshooting methodologies
  • Study pipeline optimization and reliability techniques

Practical prerequisites

Before you start this lesson, please have the following things ready:

  • Identify and resolve common CI workflow issues
  • Implement systematic debugging processes for pipelines
  • Configure proper error handling in CI workflows
  • Set up pipeline monitoring and alerting systems

Goals

Theoretical goals

By the end of this lesson, you should know the following:

  • Understand backup strategies for continuous deployment systems
  • Learn recovery point and time objective planning
  • Master backup verification and validation methods
  • Study automated recovery procedure implementation

Practical goals

By the end of this lesson, you should have completed the following:

  • Configure automated backup systems for CD environments
  • Implement comprehensive recovery procedures for deployments
  • Test backup and recovery processes regularly
  • Set up backup monitoring and verification systems

Learning resources

Teacher's instructions

Student's instructions