Continuous Delivery & GitOps Certifications
Eliminate scripting and manual deployments with Argo CD-as-a-Service and powerful, easy-to-use pipelines. Empower your teams to deliver new features, faster – with AI/ML for automated canary and blue/green deployments, advanced verification, and intelligent rollback
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Continuous Delivery & GitOps - Developer
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Eliminate scripting and manual deployments with Argo CD-as-a-Service and powerful, easy-to-use pipelines. Empower your teams to deliver new features, faster – with AI/ML for automated canary and blue/green deployments, advanced verification, and intelligent rollback
Exam Details
The Continuous Delivery Developer exam tests your knowledge and skills of the Harness Continuous Delivery module.
Prerequisites
- Basic terminal skills
- Basic understanding of on premise or cloud architecture
Exam Details
Exam Duration: 90 minutes
Question Type: Multiple choice
| Covered Domain | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Application Architectures and Services for Deployment | 25% |
| Swimlanes | 15% |
| Continuous Delivery | 30% |
| Continuous Verification | 8% |
| GitOps | 10% |
| Data Visibility | 8% |
| Security | 7% |
Exam Objectives
List of Objectives
The following is a detailed list of exam objectives:
| # | Objectives |
|---|---|
| 1 | Application Architectures and Services for Deploymente |
| 1.1 | Define a deployment and what makes it continuous |
| 1.2 | Explain application architectures |
| 1.3 | Identify artifacts and manifests needed for a deployment |
| 1.4 | Describe Kubernetes manifests (flat file, helm, etc.) |
| 1.5 | Describe the services needed for an application |
| 1.6 | Configure overrides for service variables (secrets, non-secrets) |
| 1.7 | Describe artifact sources |
| 1.8 | Configure artifact sources |
| 1.9 | Configure service tagging |
| 1.10 | Describe manifest overrides |
| 1.11 | Configure manifest overrides |
| 1.12 | Identify basic deployments (add examples for each app architecture type) |
| 1.13 | Identify rolling deployments |
| 1.14 | Identify canary deployments |
| 1.15 | Identify blue/green deployments |
| 2 | Swimlanes |
| 2.1 | For a Kubernetes deployment, specify environments needed for my application or service - types (Prod, Non-prod) |
| 2.2 | For a Kubernetes deployment, configure environments needed for my application or service |
| 2.3 | For a Kubernetes deployment, describe infrastructure definitions for an environment |
| 2.4 | For a Kubernetes deployment, configure infrastructure definitions for an environment |
| 2.5 | For a Kubernetes deployment, configure overrides for an environment |
| 2.6 | Describe tagging, labeling, and identifiers (what is it used for, different types - resource identification, Business Intelligence, infra assignments, examples - Kubernetes, AWS |
| 2.7 | Configure rolling deployments for each application type (monolith, serverless, container-based) |
| 2.8 | Configure canary deployments for each application type (monolith, serverless, container-based) |
| 2.9 | Configure blue/green deployments for each application type (monolith, serverless, container-based) |
| 3 | Continuous Delivery |
| 3.1 | Automate deployments in your environment |
| 3.2 | Identify pre-deployment steps per environment |
| 3.2.1 | Create a git trigger |
| 3.2.2 | Create a webhook |
| 3.2.3 | Create a manual trigger |
| 3.2.4 | Create a CI outcome trigger (artifact) |
| 3.3 | Describe Policy as Code |
| 3.4 | Configure Policy as Code |
| 3.5 | Describe ticketing and documentation |
| 3.6 | Describe the fetching process (artifacts, manifests, environment-specific requirements, configuration management) |
| 3.7 | Configure fetching (artifacts, manifests, environment-specific requirements, config mgmt) |
| 3.8 | Describe an approval process for my deployment |
| 3.9 | Set up an approval process for my deployment |
| 3.10 | Define failure strategies |
| 3.11 | Configure failure strategies |
| 3.12 | Configure Barriers |
| 3.13 | Describe Conditional Execution |
| 3.14 | Configure Conditional Execution |
| 3.15 | Describe Step Library - Shell Script/run step |
| 4 | Continuous Verification |
| 4.1 | Identify deployment verification types |
| 4.2 | Describe verification through deployment logs |
| 4.3 | Identify deployment health checks |
| 4.4 | Monitor server health during a deployment |
| 4.5 | Monitor execution checks during a deployment |
| 5 | GitOps |
| 5.1 | Explain the principles of GitOps |
| 5.2 | Describe common use cases for using GitOps |
| 5.3 | Describe the benefits of using GitOps |
| 5.4 | Install the GitOps agent |
| 5.5 | Connect your Kubernetes cluster and application repository to Harness to start deployments |
| 5.6 | Set up an application in Harness using GitOps |
| 6 | Data Visibility |
| 6.1 | Describe dashboards |
| 6.2 | Configure notifications and alerts |
| 6.3 | Configure tagging and labeling (governance, reporting) |
| 6.4 | Configure tagging and labeling (governance, reporting) |
| 7 | Security |
| 7.1 | Describe two-factor authentication (2FA) |
| 7.2 | Describe RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) - Built-in Roles |
Next Steps
The Continuous Delivery Developer exam can start immediatly after registering. Please allow 90 mins for the exam.
- Create an account in Harness University
- Register for an exam
- Take the exam
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