GitOps & Kubernetes: Your First Steps

A Practical Guide to Deployment Automation for Beginners

De: Ghada Atef

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Unlock the Power of Automated Deployments and Master the Future of Cloud-Native Operations

Are you tired of stressful, error-prone manual deployments? Do you want to harness the power of Kubernetes without getting lost in its complexity? The world of software delivery has been transformed by two powerful technologies, and this book is your key to mastering them.

GitOps & Kubernetes: Your First Steps is a practical, beginner-friendly guide to revolutionizing how you manage and deploy applications. This book demystifies deployment automation by introducing GitOps, a powerful methodology where your Git repository becomes the single source of truth for all your infrastructure and application configurations. Paired with Kubernetes, the industry-leading container orchestrator, you'll learn how to build deployment pipelines that are reliable, auditable, and highly automated.

Written for developers, operations engineers, and students, this guide takes you on a step-by-step journey from core concepts to advanced, real-world practices. You will move from foundational theory to hands-on implementation, building the confidence and skills needed to excel in a modern DevOps environment.

Inside this book, you will learn to:

• Grasp Core Principles: Understand the foundational concepts of GitOps and the essential architecture of Kubernetes, including Pods, Deployments, and Services.

• Implement with Leading Tools: Get hands-on experience deploying applications with industry-standard GitOps operators like Argo CD and Flux.

• Manage Secrets Securely: Learn to handle sensitive data like passwords and API keys safely within a Git-based workflow using tools like Sealed Secrets and SOPS.

• Handle Multiple Environments: Confidently manage deployments across development, staging, and production environments using Git branches and configuration tools like Kustomize and Helm.

• Monitor and Observe: Set up a complete monitoring stack for your applications using Prometheus for metrics, Grafana for dashboards, and learn the importance of logging and tracing.

• Enforce Security Best Practices: Secure your entire pipeline, from locking down Git repositories and implementing RBAC in Kubernetes to scanning container images for vulnerabilities.

• Explore Advanced Strategies: Dive into progressive delivery techniques like Canary and Blue/Green deployments, and enforce infrastructure rules with Policy as Code (PaC) using Open Policy Agent (OPA).

By the end of this book, you will have the practical skills to build, manage, and scale applications with the speed and reliability that modern software development demands. Stop wishing for better deployments and start building them.

Take your first step into deployment automation today!