Cloud-Native CI/CD

Cloud-native software delivery as of today demands more than just pipelines - it demands secure, intelligent, and GitOps-driven automation that can scale across Kubernetes and multi-cloud environments.

This hands-on guide gives you everything you need to design, implement, and operate production-grade CI/CD systems using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and Jenkins, tightly integrated with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, FluxCD, Helm, and Terraform. Unlike superficial introductions, this book provides end-to-end, real-world pipelines backed by practice labs, troubleshooting playbooks, and a full-stack capstone project.

You will learn how to:

• Master the core principles of cloud-native delivery models and multi-cloud pipelines (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Build secure container workflows with SBOM scanning, Cosign signing, and policy enforcement (SLSA, OPA, Kyverno).
• Deploy applications to Kubernetes using GitOps automation with ArgoCD and FluxCD.
• Integrate observability into CI/CD pipelines with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry.
• Implement advanced deployment strategies - blue-green, canary, A/B, and progressive delivery.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures with runner diagnostics, secret rotation, GitOps drift detection, and K8s misconfiguration fixes.
• Explore next-generation trends including serverless CI/CD with Tekton, AI-driven pipelines, and sustainable DevOps practices.

Every chapter includes a Practice Lab so you can apply what you've learned immediately, and the book culminates in a Capstone Project: building a complete, multi-service CI/CD platform that unifies GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, and ArgoCD into one enterprise-grade workflow.

Whether you are a DevOps engineer, SRE, platform engineer, cloud architect, or software developer, this book equips you with the practical skills, reusable templates, and security checklists needed to deliver software reliably, securely, and at scale in today's cloud-native landscape.