Foundry · Chapter 12
Your 30 Days with Foundry
One short task a day that walks you through the whole book again, and an expert to ask when you get stuck.
The 30-day plan
This is the plan from the end of Chapter 12. Do one task a day. If you miss a day, carry on from where you stopped. Reading this page needs no account.
Week one, the idea (Chapters 1 to 3)
- Day 1Write three ideas. Run the "explain my idea back to me" prompt from Chapter 1.
- Day 2Reread the AI's answer. List what it said it was unsure about.
- Day 3Fill in your Idea Canvas from Chapter 2.
- Day 4Turn the canvas into a one-page intent file. Add one line on who might attack it.
- Day 5Draw the DevSecOps loop from Chapter 3 for your own idea.
- Day 6Answer Chapter 3's four questions: what to protect, how, how sure you are, and who pays.
- Day 7Rest. Read your notes once. Change nothing.
Week two, Dev (Chapters 4 to 7)
- Day 8Set up your workbench and project folder, as in Chapter 4.
- Day 9Connect GitLab and Azure. Check which account is active before you do anything else.
- Day 10Let the AI interview you and draft your instructions, as in Chapter 5.
- Day 11Add the beginner safety profile and the finish-the-job rule to those instructions.
- Day 12Reread Chapter 6. Write down one feature you would add to your idea later.
- Day 13Plan your website with the AI. Read the plan and the cost. Say go only when both are right.
- Day 14Deploy it. Open the live page on your phone.
Week three, Sec (Chapters 8 and 9)
- Day 15Note one time the AI stopped and asked you. Write down why that was good.
- Day 16Check your permission mode from Chapter 8. Make sure it is not a bypass mode.
- Day 17Create a scoped, expiring GitLab token, as in Chapter 9.
- Day 18Store it in Key Vault. This is the hard day. Be patient with it.
- Day 19Add your first security scan with one prompt.
- Day 20Read the scan results. Ask the AI to explain one finding and fix it.
- Day 21Rest.
Week four, Ops (Chapters 10 and 11)
- Day 22Open the free services page. Set a budget with alerts, as in Chapter 10.
- Day 23Open Cost analysis. Confirm your real spend matches what the AI promised.
- Day 24Add a fingerprint to your page and set up an uptime check, as in Chapter 11.
- Day 25Rehearse an outage. Time the alert. Recover, then look.
- Day 26Break a practice branch on purpose. Read the failed pipeline. Ask the AI to fix it properly.
- Day 27Run the teardown prompt. Remove what you do not need. Keep your live site.
- Day 28Rest.
The last two days (Chapter 12)
- Day 29Make one small, real change to your site. Take it all the way: idea, merge request, pipeline, live page, fingerprint. Check it yourself.
- Day 30Write one page about the month. What worked? What bit you? Which principle did you nearly forget? Keep it. It is the start of your own rulebook.
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