CI/CD Pipeline Game

Design a CI/CD pipeline. $1000 budget. Make tradeoffs.

tool · 2024 · github

Python · Docker · Make

A learning game disguised as budget management. Fixed $1000, real tools, real cost-vs-confidence tradeoffs — the kind of decisions you'd actually make in a sprint, compressed into ten minutes.

Game introduction screen with budget display — Start screen showing your $1000 budget

Gameplay showing tool selection prompts — Make decisions with color-coded cost indicators

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Choices:

SCM, build, testing, environments — each with real cost vs. confidence tradeoffs
Color-coded by cost: red expensive, yellow medium, green affordable
PowerUps reward smart methodology choices
Pair Programming hides an easter egg

Game ends with a budget summary and an assessment of what you over- (or under-) spent on.