DevOps Engineering Essentials

Software powers modern business.

But building software is only half the challenge.

The real challenge is delivering software quickly, reliably, securely, and at scale.

That is where DevOps changes everything.

DevOps Engineering Essentials is a practical guide to modern software delivery, helping readers understand the tools, practices, and automation strategies used by today's highest-performing engineering organizations.

From source code management and CI/CD pipelines to containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability, reliability engineering, and platform engineering, this book provides a complete roadmap for building modern DevOps capabilities.

Inside this comprehensive guide, you'll learn:

• DevOps culture, principles, and the CALMS framework
• Git workflows, branching strategies, and version control best practices
• CI/CD pipeline design and automation
• GitHub Actions and modern deployment pipelines
• Automated testing and quality gates
• Docker containers and container security
• Kubernetes architecture, deployment, networking, and operations
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Configuration management with Ansible
• GitOps workflows and infrastructure automation
• Secrets management and security best practices
• Monitoring, logging, and observability
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Incident management and operational excellence
• Platform Engineering and internal developer platforms