A city CI pipeline shows install green, test red with FAILED assertions, then image-build and deploy skipped. An engineer opens the deploy log looking for a down Kubernetes API. What is the correct 4.1 read?
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Short Explanation
Read the first red light on the street—don’t invent traffic jams past a closed gate. Test already failed; skipped deploy is not “Kubernetes is down.”
Full Explanation
With install green, test red on FAILED assertions, and image-build plus deploy skipped, the correct 4.1 read is to diagnose the first red job—the failed test stage—as the evidence; later stages were skipped because of it. Opening the deploy log looking for a down Kubernetes API invents a failure past a gate that never opened. Pipeline literacy for civic automation means following the first red light on the street, not inventing traffic jams beyond a closed gate.
Treating skipped deploy as proof the cluster is unreachable ignores the explicit test failure and invents an infrastructure outage without evidence in the deploy job. Blaming the image registry because deploy never printed a push URL similarly mistakes a skipped stage for a registry fault—no push was attempted. Assuming install failed despite a green install stage in the pipeline UI contradicts the UI’s own status and wastes time re-debugging a successful dependency resolve.
Exam caveat: skipped is not failed—skipped means a prior gate blocked progression; only the first red stage is the primary diagnosis target for DEVCOR 4.1-style log reading. Operational check: open the test job, fix or explain the FAILED assertions until that stage is green, then confirm image-build and deploy actually execute rather than remaining skipped for the same upstream reason.