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