Toolchain & Automation Primers

These primers focus on workflow automation and reproducibility, teaching how code becomes system. They bridge development and operations.

Planned Primers

Local Automation

• Makefiles — Build orchestration and task automation
• Shell scripting — Unix automation fundamentals
• Task runners — Modern build tools (npm scripts, just, task)

Pipelines

• Jenkins — Self-hosted automation server
• GitHub Actions — CI/CD in the cloud
• CI/CD flow — Continuous integration and deployment patterns

Containers & Environments

• Docker — Containerization fundamentals
• Podman — Daemonless container engine
• Docker Compose — Multi-container orchestration
• Ephemeral builds — Reproducible build environments

Infrastructure as Code

• Ansible — Configuration management and provisioning
• Puppet — Declarative infrastructure automation
• Terraform — Cloud infrastructure provisioning
• Dotfiles — Personal development environment setup

Database Lifecycle

• Test databases — Isolated testing strategies
• Liquibase — Database change management
• Flyway — Version control for databases

Reproducibility

• Caching strategies — Build optimization
• Artifact management — Binary and package repositories
• Environment parity — Development/production alignment