DevOps & Security Checklists

Interactive checklists for DevOps, security, and cloud best practices. Track your progress and ensure nothing is missed.

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CI/CD(1)

CI/CD

How to Implement Progressive Delivery with Feature Flags

A step-by-step checklist for implementing progressive delivery using feature flags, canary releases, and gradual rollouts so you can ship to production without breaking things.

Intermediate

45-90 minutes

14 items

Cloud(3)

Cloud

AWS Security Checklist

Essential security configuration checklist for AWS cloud environments.

AWS Well-Architected Review Checklist

Comprehensive checklist based on AWS Well-Architected Framework covering operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.

Kubernetes Security Checklist

Essential security checklist for Kubernetes clusters to ensure production readiness.

Advanced

1-2 hours

9 items

DevOps(4)

DevOps

CI/CD Pipeline Setup Checklist

Complete guide to setting up a production-ready CI/CD pipeline.

GitOps Implementation Checklist

Comprehensive checklist for implementing GitOps practices with repository structure, sync policies, secret management, and deployment strategies.

Monitoring & Observability Checklist

Comprehensive checklist for implementing monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting across your infrastructure and applications.

Production Deployment Checklist

Pre-deployment checklist to ensure safe and successful production releases.

Beginner

20-30 minutes

9 items

FinOps(1)

FinOps

How to Set Up Cloud Cost Allocation Tags Across AWS, GCP, and Azure

A practical guide to implementing consistent cost allocation tagging strategies across multi-cloud environments for accurate chargeback and showback.

Intermediate

60-120 minutes

14 items

GitOps(1)

GitOps

Argo CD Multi-Environment Repository Structure Checklist

How to organize your Git repositories when running Argo CD across dev, staging, and production. Covers folder layout, app-of-apps, ApplicationSets, secrets, RBAC, and promotion flow.

Intermediate

60-90 minutes

14 items

Infrastructure(1)

Infrastructure

High Availability Architecture Checklist

Comprehensive checklist for designing and implementing highly available systems with load balancing, failover, and redundancy.

Advanced

90-120 minutes

12 items

Infrastructure as Code(1)

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Repository Structure Checklist

Best practices for organizing and structuring your Terraform projects for maintainability and scalability.

Beginner

30-45 minutes

12 items

Platform Engineering(1)

Platform Engineering

Building an Internal Developer Platform from Scratch

A step-by-step checklist for designing and building an internal developer platform (IDP) that gives your engineers self-service access to infrastructure, environments, and deployments without filing tickets.

Advanced

60-120 minutes

14 items

Security(2)

Security

Docker Security Hardening Checklist

Comprehensive security checklist for hardening Docker containers, images, and runtime environments.

SSH Hardening Checklist

Comprehensive guide to harden your SSH server configuration and improve security.

Intermediate

30-45 minutes

12 items

Service Mesh(1)

Service Mesh

Istio Traffic Management Checklist: Routing, Retries, and Circuit Breaking

How to configure traffic management policies in Istio so your services can do canary releases, retry transient failures, and shed load when a downstream service goes bad. Covers VirtualService, DestinationRule, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, and outlier detection.

Intermediate

60-90 minutes

13 items

SRE(1)

SRE

SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets: A Practical Implementation Guide

A step-by-step checklist for defining service level objectives, picking the right service level indicators, and using error budgets to make better decisions about reliability vs. feature velocity.

Intermediate

45-90 minutes

14 items

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