1. Map a service and its operating responsibilities
Cloud & Operations · Draw the boundaries between application, state, infrastructure and operator responsibilities.
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2. Keep configuration explicit and secrets out of artifacts
Cloud & Operations · Validate an environment contract before a process performs work.
Explore & practise3. Stage a release, verify it and roll back code
Cloud & Operations · Use versioned artifacts and a controlled local activation step while preserving state.
Explore & practise4. Prove a backup by restoring into a separate target
Cloud & Operations · Validate recovered content without overwriting the current source.
Explore & practise5. Use logs, latency and service objectives carefully
Cloud & Operations · Turn safe structured observations into a reproducible operational signal.
Explore & practise6. Handle retries, duplicate delivery and partial failure
Cloud & Operations · Make one local state transition repeatable without claiming global exactly-once delivery.
Explore & practise7. Plan cloud access, budget and teardown before provisioning
Cloud & Operations · Create a reviewable fictional resource inventory with ownership and cost assumptions.
Explore & practise8. Review containers, CI and infrastructure as code
Cloud & Operations · Distinguish reproducible design artifacts from an executed runtime or deployment.
Explore & practise9. Run an incident and recovery tabletop
Cloud & Operations · Produce a handover that separates containment, code rollback, data recovery and prevention.
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