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DevOps for Cloud Engineers....

📑 DevOps for Cloud Engineers

Cloud Engineering and DevOps go hand in hand.

  • CI/CD makes deployments faster & safer—no manual updates, no downtime.
  • Version control prevents disasters—every change is tracked, and rollbacks are easy.
  • Configuration management keeps things consistent—deploy on 100s on machines in a consistent manner.

If you master DevOps principles, you’ll stand out in interviews and work more efficiently in real-world cloud environments.

📖 Step 1: Understand CI/CD Fundamentals

📌 CI/CD Explained – GitLab & Red Hat Articles

  • Why? These two guides provide the best explanations of CI/CD concepts.
  • What You’ll Learn: What CI/CD is, why it matters, and how modern cloud companies implement it.
  • Links:

🎓 Step 2: Learn Git & Version Control

📌 Interactive Git Learning – LearnGitBranching

  • Why? Git is non-negotiable for DevOps—this interactive tool helps you visualize Git workflows.
  • What You’ll Learn: Branching, merging, rebasing, and collaboration best practices.
  • Link: Try Here

🛠️ Step 3: Hands-On DevOps Tools & Pipelines

📌 Jenkins – Open-Source CI/CD Tool

📌 Configuration Management – Ansible Use Cases (GitHub Repo)

  • Why? Ansible helps you automate configuration & infrastructure setup—essential for scaling cloud workloads.
  • What You’ll Learn: Real-world Ansible playbooks for managing cloud environments.
  • Link: Ansible Product Demos

🚀 Step 4: Build & Integrate Your Own CI/CD Pipeline

📌 Project: Build a CI/CD Pipeline Using Jenkins

  • Why? Jenkins is an open source tool and it's easy to use.
  • Task:
    • Set up Jenkins (eg: you can deploy on AWS EC2)
    • Create a simple CI/CD pipeline for your IaC project (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep).
    • Add code coverage using tools like Cobertura

📌 Project: Deploy an App Using GitHub Actions + AWS Lambda

  • Why? A serverless deployment pipeline is a great real-world cloud DevOps project.
  • Task:
    • Write a GitHub Actions workflow that automatically deploys an AWS Lambda function when code is pushed.
    • Automate infrastructure creation with Terraform or CloudFormation.

💡 Bonus Resources (For Advanced Learning!)

📌 Terraform & Ansible Integration – Infrastructure as Code + Config Management

  • Why? Combining Terraform for provisioning and Ansible for config management is a powerful DevOps pattern.
  • Link: Terraform + Ansible Guide

🚀 How to Use This Guide?

1️⃣ Start by understanding CI/CD fundamentals—read the GitLab & Red Hat guides.

2️⃣ Learn Git inside out using LearnGitBranching.

3️⃣ Get hands-on with Jenkins—watch the tutorial & set up pipelines.

4️⃣ Explore config management—use Ansible’s GitHub repo for real-world examples.

5️⃣ Build your own CI/CD pipelines—whether in Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline.

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