The Platform Engineer's Course on Building Secure CI/CD Pipelines When Legacy Apps Shift to Microservices

Learn how to design, automate, and protect your CI/CD workflow so migrations succeed without downtime or security gaps.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. 48-hour turnaround. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook generated for your specific situation, on top of the course.

Why this course

Your team is juggling legacy code, new container workloads, and a patchwork of scripting tools. Every merge triggers unpredictable build failures, and security scans are treated as an after-thought, forcing you to scramble for compliance evidence after releases.

Meanwhile, compliance auditors demand traceable controls, yet your pipelines lack versioned policy enforcement, leading to missed vulnerabilities and costly rollbacks. The lack of a unified platform means you spend days patching scripts instead of delivering value, and a single misconfiguration can expose production secrets to the whole organization.

Who it is for

A hands-on platform engineer who owns the internal developer platform, writes automation scripts, and collaborates daily with developers and security teams to keep build pipelines fast, reliable, and compliant.

What you walk away with

Define a repeatable, auditable CI/CD architecture aligned with ISO 27001 controls.
Implement automated security scanning that blocks vulnerable code before merge.
Create self-service pipeline templates that reduce manual scripting by 60 percent.
Establish role-based access controls that satisfy SOC 2 requirements for pipeline integrity.
Monitor and remediate pipeline drift in real time using built-in observability.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Mapping Compliance to Pipeline Design

Translate ISO 27001 and SOC 2 controls into concrete CI/CD components.

Module 2. Infrastructure as Code Foundations

Set up version-controlled pipeline infrastructure with Terraform.

Module 3. Secure Artifact Management

Configure signed binary repositories and enforce immutability.

Module 4. Automated Static Analysis Integration

Embed SAST tools into build steps and enforce fail-fast policies.

Module 5. Dynamic Scanning in Release Stages

Add container and runtime vulnerability scans before promotion.

Module 6. Policy as Code with OPA

Write reusable policies that gate merges and deployments.

Module 7. Role-Based Access for Pipelines

Implement least-privilege permissions using RBAC and secret management.

Module 8. Observability and Drift Detection

Deploy metrics and alerts to catch configuration drift instantly.

Module 9. Self-Service Templates for Developers

Create reusable pipeline blueprints that developers can instantiate safely.

Module 10. Incident Response Automation

Build playbooks that automatically quarantine compromised builds.

Module 11. Audit Trail and Evidence Generation

Configure logs and reports that satisfy auditor evidence requirements.

Module 12. Continuous Improvement Loop

Establish a feedback cycle to iterate on security and performance metrics.

FAQ

Do I need prior experience with Terraform or OPA?

Basic familiarity helps, but each tool is introduced step-by-step with hands-on labs.

Will this course cover compliance reporting for SOC 2?

Yes, we map every pipeline activity to the relevant SOC 2 criteria and show how to generate evidence.

Can the material be applied to existing pipelines without a full rewrite?

Modules include incremental migration patterns so you can adopt secure practices piece by piece.

What support is available after I finish the course?

You get access to a private community forum and quarterly Q&A webinars for ongoing guidance.

Built on the corpus. Built on The Art of Service's corpus of 718 source-grounded frameworks, 28,586 controls with auditor evidence, and 332K+ cross-framework mappings, this course aligns tightly with ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, and SOC 2 standards.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, email Gerard and you get a full refund. No questions, no forms.