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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.

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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\
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"

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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Related Skills

Skill	Relationship
faion-devops-engineer	Parent skill
faion-infrastructure-engineer	Sibling (infrastructure and cloud)

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CI/CD Engineer Sub-Skill v1.0 28 Methodologies | CI/CD, Monitoring, Security, GitOps