Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery

Unlike most DevOps books that focus on theory and culture, this hands-on guide dives into the real tools and practices of modern software delivery. Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, author of Terraform: Up & Running, walks you through running and maintaining production systems with step-by-step examples covering:

Apps: EC2, Kubernetes, Lambda

Infrastructure: Terraform/OpenTofu, Packer, Docker, Ansible

CI/CD: pipelines, testing, releases

Networking: VPCs, VPNs, DNS, service meshes

Architecture: environments, libraries, microservices

Security: secrets, encryption

Data: SQL/NoSQL, file stores, CDNs

Monitoring: metrics, logs, alerts

By the end, you’ll have hands-on experience with the core skills every DevOps, SRE, and full-stack engineer needs.