Master Continuous Delivery Architecture: Accelerate Speed, Quality, and Team Morale

Continuous Delivery Architect (CDA) is designed for professionals who build, implement, and manage DevOps pipelines and toolchains that support continuous integration, delivery, testing, and potentially continuous deployment.

The course focuses on the fundamentals of continuous delivery, its processes, metrics, APIs, and cultural factors.

Course Outline

Course Introduction

Course objectives

Course schedule

CDA Concepts

Definition of Continuous Delivery (CD)

CD architecture

Relationship between CD, DevOps, Waterfall, Agile, and ITIL

Benefits of continuous delivery

CDA Culture

Importance of culture for CD architects

What CD architects can do for culture

How to sustain culture

Hands‑on: DevOps culture and process creation

Design Practices for Continuous Delivery

Why design matters for CD

Role of CD architects in design

Key design principles

CD best practices

Microservices and containers

Continuous Integration (CI)

Definition of CI

Role of CD architects in CI

Importance and benefits of CI

CI best practices

Exercise: Optimizing CI workflows

Continuous Testing (CT)

Definition of CT

Importance and benefits of CT

Role of CD architects in CT

Five CT principles

CT best practices

Exercise: Handling environment inconsistencies

Continuous Delivery and Deployment

Definitions of CD and continuous deployment

Benefits of CD and deployment

Role of CD architects in delivery and deployment

Best practices for CD and deployment

Exercise: Distinguishing delivery from deployment

Continuous Monitoring

Definition of continuous monitoring

Importance of monitoring

Role of CD architects in monitoring

Monitoring best practices

Exercise: Monitoring build progress

Infrastructure and Tools

Importance of infrastructure and tools

Role of CD architects in infrastructure and tools

Building a DevOps toolchain

Infrastructure/tools best practices

Exercise: Identifying common infrastructure/tool components

Security Assurance

Importance of security assurance

Definition of DevSecOps and Rugged DevOps

Role of CD architects in security

Security best practices

Exercise: Applying security measures

Identifying improvements in toolchains and workflows

Summary

Exam preparation

Exam requirements

Review of sample exam questions

The course material includes practical artifacts, templates, and dictionaries collected by author Marc Hornbeek, and the certification enables learners to pass the CDA exam.

Target audience: enterprise architects, IT managers, operations and support staff, infrastructure teams, project managers, quality managers, release managers, engineers, software developers, security specialists, and testers interested in continuous integration and delivery principles.