CI/CD Engineering in Practice: Build Secure, Scalable Pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitOps
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 9 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.56
Height: 0.64 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Build Secure, Scalable Pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitOps
Modern software delivery is no longer just about speed-it's about security, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. CI/CD Engineering in Practice is a comprehensive, hands-on guide that teaches you how to design, build, secure, and scale production-grade CI/CD pipelines using the most widely adopted tools in today's cloud-native ecosystem.
Whether you are a DevOps engineer, cloud engineer, platform engineer, SRE, or backend developer, this book equips you with the practical knowledge and architectural patterns required to deliver software confidently and continuously.
What You'll Learn
✔ Design resilient CI/CD architectures using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and Jenkins
✔ Build secure, scalable pipelines that integrate Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
✔ Implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and FluxCD for declarative deployments
✔ Apply security-first CI/CD principles, including SBOMs, SLSA provenance, and OIDC authentication
✔ Automate testing, validation, and deployment across multiple environments
✔ Optimize pipelines for performance, cost efficiency, and reliability
✔ Implement production-grade deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, and rollback automation
✔ Monitor pipelines and applications using observability, metrics, and logging
✔ Prepare CI/CD systems for multi-cloud, hybrid, and enterprise-scale environments
What Makes This Book Different
Unlike beginner-level DevOps books that focus on isolated tools, CI/CD Engineering in Practice delivers a holistic, tool-agnostic engineering approach. You'll learn why certain patterns work, when to use specific tools, and how to adapt pipelines to evolving organizational and security requirements.
Each chapter includes:
- Real-world architectural guidance
- Best practices and anti-patterns
- Practical workflows used in modern engineering teams
- A full end-to-end capstone project that brings everything together
Who This Book Is For
- DevOps engineers looking to advance beyond basic CI/CD setups
- Cloud and platform engineers building internal developer platforms
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) responsible for release reliability
- Software engineers transitioning into DevOps or platform roles
- Architects designing scalable, secure delivery pipelines
Why CI/CD Engineering Matters
As organizations adopt microservices, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures, CI/CD pipelines have become critical production systems. Poorly designed pipelines lead to outages, security incidents, and slow delivery. This book teaches you how to engineer pipelines that are:
- Secure by default
- Observable and auditable
- Scalable across teams and environments
- Resilient to failure
- Ready for real production workloads
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