Deployment and Operations Fundamentals Questions

Describe the end to end process for getting code from development into production and the operational practices that support it. Topics include version control and branching strategies automated build and test pipelines artifact promotion continuous integration and continuous delivery deployment strategies such as blue green and canary deployments feature flagging rollback procedures infrastructure as code containerization and orchestration secrets management and how deployment practices interact with monitoring and incident response. Candidates should be ready to discuss real examples and lessons learned from deployments and rollbacks.