CI/CD Engineering for DevOps Engineers: Build Production Pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD

Build CI/CD pipelines that are fast, secure, reliable, and ready for production.

Modern DevOps is not just about running a build after every commit. Production software delivery requires automated testing, secure artifacts, controlled releases, observability, rollback strategies, and pipelines that engineers can trust.
CI/CD Engineering for DevOps Engineers takes you from the foundations of continuous integration and continuous delivery to complete production-grade pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Argo CD, GitOps, and Kubernetes.

Instead of teaching isolated YAML commands, this practical guide shows you how the entire software delivery system fits together-from the first Git commit to a secure, observable production deployment.

You will learn how to:

• Understand CI, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment

• Design fast pipelines using caching, parallel jobs, matrices, and fail-fast feedback

• Build real workflows with GitHub Actions

• Create production pipelines with GitLab CI/CD

• Design and operate Jenkins pipelines with controllers, agents, and Jenkinsfiles

• Use branching strategies, pull requests, and protected branches effectively

• Implement automated testing and enforce quality gates

• Secure the software supply chain with vulnerability scanning, SBOMs, artifact signing, and verification

• Protect credentials, runners, artifacts, registries, and deployment workflows

• Choose between rolling, blue-green, canary, and recreate deployment strategies

• Implement GitOps delivery with Argo CD and Kubernetes

• Use progressive delivery to limit deployment blast radius

• Apply metrics, logs, and traces to production releases

• Design automated rollback based on real system health

• Measure delivery performance using practical DevOps and DORA principles

This book teaches those durable principles while showing how they are implemented across today's major CI/CD platforms.

Built for real-world DevOps work
Each section moves from concepts into practical implementation. You will work with pipeline-as-code, reusable jobs, automated testing, security scanning, container images, artifact registries, Kubernetes deployments, GitOps workflows, canary releases, observability, and recovery strategies.

The final production pipeline connects the complete infrastructure stack: Terraform provisions it, Ansible configures it, Kubernetes runs it, and CI/CD delivers to it.

This book is ideal for:

• DevOps engineers

• Platform engineers

• Site reliability engineers

• Cloud and infrastructure engineers

• Software developers responsible for deployment pipelines

• Engineers preparing for DevOps roles and certifications

• Anyone moving from basic CI scripts to production software delivery

Move from commit to production with confidence.