The Cloud DevOps Engineer's Guide : Build, Automate, Secure, and Scale Cloud-Native CI/CD Pipelines with DevOps Best Practices.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maior, Thiago.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloud computing.

Computer software--Development.

Computer software.

Software architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited, 2026.

Summary:

A practical, hands-on guide to mastering cloud DevOps using Git, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and AI-powered automation to build secure, scalable, production-ready systems.

Contents:

Intro

The Cloud DevOps Engineer's Guide

Build, automate, secure, and scale cloud-native CI/CD pipelines with DevOps best practices

Contributors

About the author

About the reviewer

Table of Contents

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Conventions used

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Part 1

Foundations of DevOps and the Cloud

1

Understanding the DevOps and Cloud Landscape

Technical requirements

What is DevOps? A new culture of collaboration

Deconstructing the "wall of confusion

The three pillars of DevOps culture

1. Shared ownership and systems thinking

2. Faster and amplified feedback loops

3. A culture of continuous improvement and experimentation

From Agile to DevOps: A brief history

The age of Waterfall: A linear approach

The cracks in the Waterfall

The Agile revolution: Embracing change

Scrum: Iterating in Sprints

Kanban: Visualizing the flow of work

The last mile problem: Where Agile ended

The DevOps lifecycle: From code to operation

Phase 1: Plan

Phase 2: Code

Phase 3: Build

Phase 4: Test

Phase 5: Release

Phase 6: Deploy

Phase 7: Operate

Phase 8: Monitor

Core principles: Automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery

Automation: The engine of DevOps

Continuous integration: The foundation of quality

Continuous delivery and continuous deployment: The path to production

Continuous delivery

Continuous deployment

Introduction to cloud computing: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

What is cloud computing?

The service models: A shared responsibility

Infrastructure as a Service

Platform as a Service.

Software as a Service

Major cloud players: AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud Platform

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2

Setting Up Your DevOps Workstation

Essential command-line (Bash) basics for DevOps

Why the command line?

Getting to your terminal

Core commands for navigation and file manipulation

Follow-along exercise: Creating a project structure

Installing and configuring Git for version control

Installing Git on your system

Windows

macOS

Linux (Ubuntu/Debian)

First-time Git configuration

Setting up your code editor: VS Code for DevOps

Why Visual Studio Code?

Installing and touring VS Code

Essential extensions for a DevOps workstation

Introduction to Docker: Installing Docker Desktop

What is Docker Desktop?

Installing Docker Desktop

Linux

Verifying the Installation

Creating your AWS/Azure/GCP free-tier account

Signing up for the AWS Free Tier

Signing up for an Azure free account

Signing up for the Google Cloud Free Tier

3

Mastering Version Control with Git and GitHub

Git fundamentals: Commits, pushes, and pulls

The three trees: Understanding Git's architecture

Initializing your first repository

The core workflow: Add, commit, and check status

Checking the status with git status

Staging changes with git add

Saving snapshots with git commit

Working with remote repositories

Pushing changes with git push

Pulling Changes with git pull

Branching for collaboration: The GitFlow strategy

Why do we need branches?

Introducing the GitFlow strategy

Long-lived branches

Supporting branches.

Hands-on: Managing your first team project on GitHub

Step 1: Create a new repository on GitHub

Step 2: Clone the repository to your local machine

Step 3: Create and work on a feature branch

Step 4: Commit and push your feature branch

The power of pull requests and code reviews

Creating your first PR

The art of the code review

Merging the pull request

Resolving merge conflicts

How does a merge conflict happen?

How to resolve a conflict

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4

Introduction to Containerization with Docker

Why containers? Understanding the core concept

The challenge of environmental drift

Containers versus virtual machines

Hands-on: Building your first Docker image with a Dockerfile

Step 1: Create a simple web application

Step 2: Write the Dockerfile

Step 3: Build the image

Development versus production - and what CI does with this Dockerfile

Managing containers and images

Running your first container

Essential container management commands

Essential image management commands

Using Docker Compose for multi-container applications

Creating a docker-compose.yml file

Running the application with Compose

Pushing your first image to Docker Hub

Step 1: Tagging your image

Step 2: Logging in to Docker Hub

Step 3: Pushing the image

5

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

What is IaC?

Declarative versus imperative IaC

Terraform fundamentals: Providers, resources, and state

Providers: The plugins for APIs

Resources: The building blocks of infrastructure

State: The map to the real world

S3 remote backend.

Hands-on: Writing your first Terraform configuration file

Step 1: Install Terraform

Step 2: Set up your project and AWS credentials

Configuring AWS credentials with the AWS CLI

Step 3: Write your first Terraform code

Using terraform plan and terraform apply to provision cloud resources

Step 1: Initialize the project with terraform init

Step 2: Preview changes with terraform plan

Drift detection

terraform plan in pull requests

Step 3: Apply the changes with terraform apply

Step 4: Destroy the infrastructure with terraform destroy

Managing variables and outputs for reusable code

Parameterizing your code with input variables

Displaying information with output values

Part 2

Building and Automating the CI/CD Pipeline

6

Constructing Your First CI/CD Pipeline

Understanding CI and CD

Continuous Integration: The discipline of frequent merging

Continuous Delivery versus Continuous Deployment

Introduction to GitHub Actions for automation

Core concepts of GitHub Actions

Hands-on: Building a simple CI pipeline to test code automatically

Step 1: Add a test to the application

Step 2: Create the GitHub Actions workflow file

Step 3: Commit, push, and watch it run

Configuring a CD pipeline to deploy to a staging environment

Step 1: Set up AWS ECR and GitHub secrets

Step 2: Create the Terraform code for AWS App Runner

Step 3: Create the CD workflow file

Step 4: Commit, push, and deploy

Enhancing pipelines with generative AI for workflow automation

AI as a development and automation accelerator

Automated quality and security gates

Intelligent pipeline orchestration and communication

7.

Automating Infrastructure with Terraform and CI/CD

Integrating Terraform with GitHub Actions

Benefits of a GitOps approach to infrastructure

Hands-on: Creating a workflow to automatically provision staging infrastructure

Step 1: Prepare your Terraform code

Step 2: Create the GitHub Actions workflow

Step 3: Push to GitHub and see it in action

Managing Terraform state in a collaborative environment

Configuring an S3 backend for Terraform state

Troubleshooting common backend and permission errors

Implementing a manual approval step for production deployments

Configuring a protected environment and workflow

Optimizing IaC with AI-driven suggestions and drift detection

AI-assisted IaC development

Automated plan analysis and drift detection

Use case: How Spotify leverages AI for infrastructure drift management

8

Container Orchestration with Kubernetes

Introduction to Kubernetes: Solving problems at scale

Kubernetes as the operating system for the cloud

Core concepts: Pods, Services, Deployments, and Nodes

The cluster: Nodes and the control plane

Pods: The smallest unit of work

Deployments: Managing your application's state

Services: Exposing your application to the network

Hands-on: Setting up a local Kubernetes cluster (minikube/k3d)

Step 1: Install kubectl

Step 2: Install minikube

Step 3: Start your local cluster

Step 4: Verify your cluster

Deploying your first containerized application to Kubernetes

Step 1: Create the Deployment manifest

Step 2: Create the Service manifest

Step 3: Apply the manifests

Step 4: Inspect and access your application.

Introduction to Helm for managing Kubernetes applications.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-83546-559-5

9781835465592

OCLC:

1581927892

Publisher Number:

CIPO000361174