Foundations of CI/CD

1. 1Why Automate? Toil, Errors & the Day-One Software Promisep. 1
2. 2CI vs CD vs CD — Untangling the Acronym Soupp. 2
3. 3Continuous Delivery: A Direction, Not a Destinationp. 3

Measuring Success & Influencing with Metrics

1. 4Measuring CI/CD Success & the Four DORA Metricsp. 4
2. 5Communicating & Influencing Your Org with Metricsp. 5

Hands-On: Pipelines as Code (Scripts & YAML)

1. 6Pipelines as Code: Why It Matters & Writing Scripts That Don't Rotp. 6
2. 7YAML Without Tears + Vendor Syntax: Actions vs GitLab vs Jenkinsfilep. 7

Continuous Integration

1. 8Life Before CI: Welcome to Merge Hellp. 8
2. 9What CI Solves & the Anatomy of a CI Systemp. 9
3. 10Building Artifacts & Types of CI Jobsp. 10

Hands-On: CI Jobs — Tests, Static Analysis & Security

1. 11CI Jobs I: Running Tests + Static Analysisp. 11
2. 12CI Jobs II: Security Scanning (SAST + SCA)p. 12

Continuous Deployment

1. 13Why Manual Deploys Hurt & What CD Fixesp. 13
2. 14Components of CD & Deploying with CLI Toolsp. 14
3. 15Secure Cloud Credentials & Wiring Deploy Into CI/CDp. 15

Deployment Strategies

1. 16Why Deployment Strategies Matter (and Your Options)p. 16
2. 17Choosing the Right Strategy for Your Contextp. 17
3. 18Hands-On: Planning & Implementing a Blue-Green Deploymentp. 18

Hands-On: Infrastructure Management (IaC)

1. 19Hands-On: Why IaC Matters & Managing Cloud with Terraformp. 19
2. 20Hands-On: EC2 Up/Down & IaC in the CI/CD Pipelinep. 20

Hands-On: Configuration Management with Ansible

1. 21Why Config Management Matters + Meet Ansiblep. 21
2. 22Hands-On: Hello World + Wiring Ansible into CI/CDp. 22

Continuous Delivery & DevOps Culture

1. 23CD Anti-Patterns & the DevOps Connectionp. 23
2. 24CD Culture & Bringing the Whole Pipeline Togetherp. 24