The DevOps Solutions Handbook: Launch your DevOps career with 90 days of hands-on projects in automation, cloud, and CI/CD

Build real-world DevOps skills through 90 days of hands-on projects. Learn Linux, Git, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD to automate infrastructure, deploy applications, and launch your DevOps career with confidence

Key Features

• Learn DevOps by completing 90 days of structured, real-world projects
• Automate infrastructure and deployments using Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Build production-ready CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitOps

Book Description

The DevOps Solutions Handbook is a hands-on, project-driven guide designed to help system administrators and aspiring engineers transition into modern DevOps roles. Instead of focusing only on theory, this book takes you through 90 days of practical projects that mirror real-world DevOps workflows used by high-performing engineering teams.

You’ll begin by building strong foundations in Linux, Git, and DevOps principles, then move into Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and configuration management with Ansible. As your journey progresses, you’ll containerize applications using Docker, deploy them to Kubernetes, and integrate cloud-native services and databases. The book emphasizes learning by doing. Each chapter builds on the previous one, guiding you through setting up CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitOps workflows using ArgoCD. You’ll automate builds, testing, deployments, and infrastructure provisioning, creating working artifacts that reflect what DevOps engineers build every day.

By the final chapters, you’ll design and deploy a full-stack, production-style application using modern DevOps tooling, bringing together infrastructure automation, containers, orchestration, and continuous delivery.

What you will learn

• Apply DevOps principles through hands-on, portfolio-ready projects
• Master Linux fundamentals and Git for collaborative workflows
• Provision infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Automate configuration with Ansible playbooks and roles
• Build, secure, and manage containerized apps with Docker
• Deploy and scale applications using Kubernetes
• Integrate databases and cloud services into real-world workflows
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD

Who this book is for

This book is for system administrators, IT support engineers, and aspiring DevOps professionals who want to transition into automation-focused, cloud-native roles. If you're comfortable with the command line and managing servers but want to learn Infrastructure as Code, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, this project-based guide will help you gain job-ready skills. No prior DevOps experience is required.

Table of Contents

1. Kickstart Your DevOps Journey
2. The Big Picture: DevOps and Linux
3. Version Control with Git
4. Infrastructure as Code
5. Configuration Management
6. Cloud Fundamentals
7. Containers
8. Kubernetes
9. Golang – Programming Language
10. Databases
11. CI/CD Pipelines
12. Beyond the Book