CI/CD & DevSecOps

CI/CD & DevSecOps Mastery Roadmap

This detailed roadmap will take you from beginner to expert in CI/CD (Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment) and DevSecOps, covering pipelines, automation, security integration, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and real-world deployments.

Phase 1: CI/CD Fundamentals

✅ Introduction to CI/CD

  • What is Continuous Integration (CI)?

  • What is Continuous Deployment (CD)?

  • Difference Between CI/CD vs. DevOps vs. DevSecOps

  • Benefits of CI/CD Pipelines (Speed, Reliability, Automation)

✅ Key Components of CI/CD

  • Source Code Repositories (Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)

  • Build Automation (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI)

  • Testing in CI/CD (Unit, Integration, End-to-End Testing)

  • Deployment Strategies (Blue-Green, Canary, Rolling Updates)

📌 Mini Projects:

  • Set Up a Simple CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions

  • Automate Code Linting & Unit Testing Using CI/CD

Phase 2: CI/CD Pipeline Implementation

✅ CI/CD Pipeline Tools & Workflows

  • Jenkins vs. GitHub Actions vs. GitLab CI/CD vs. CircleCI vs. TravisCI

  • Pipeline as Code (Jenkinsfile, .github/workflows, .gitlab-ci.yml)

  • Containerized Pipelines Using Docker

✅ Build & Test Automation

  • Automated Build Scripts (Makefile, Gradle, Maven, npm scripts)

  • Code Quality & Static Analysis (SonarQube, ESLint, Pylint)

  • Automated Testing (JUnit, Selenium, Cypress, Jest, Mocha, PyTest)

📌 Mini Projects:

  • Build a CI/CD Pipeline for a Node.js App (GitHub Actions)

  • Implement a CI/CD Pipeline for a Python Flask API (Jenkins)

Phase 3: Continuous Deployment & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

✅ Automated Deployment

  • Artifact Management (Docker Hub, Nexus, JFrog Artifactory)

  • Deployment to Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, Heroku, DigitalOcean)

  • Configuration Management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)

✅ Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  • Terraform: Managing Cloud Infrastructure

  • AWS CloudFormation & GCP Deployment Manager

  • Kubernetes for Automated Deployment

📌 Mini Projects:

  • Deploy a Dockerized App Using GitHub Actions & AWS ECS

  • Use Terraform to Automate Cloud Infrastructure Deployment

Phase 4: DevSecOps – Security in CI/CD Pipelines

✅ Introduction to DevSecOps

  • What is DevSecOps?

  • Security Integration in CI/CD Pipelines

  • Shift Left Approach in Security

✅ Security Testing & Scanning

  • Static Code Analysis (SAST) – SonarQube, Snyk

  • Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) – OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite

  • Software Composition Analysis (SCA) – Dependabot, Whitesource

  • Container Security (Docker Security Best Practices, Trivy, Aqua Security)

📌 Mini Projects:

  • Integrate SonarQube for Code Security Analysis in CI/CD

  • Automate Security Scanning with OWASP ZAP & GitHub Actions

Phase 5: Monitoring, Logging & Performance Optimization

✅ Continuous Monitoring & Observability

  • Log Management (ELK Stack, Loki, AWS CloudWatch, GCP Logging)

  • Tracing & Metrics (Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Datadog)

  • Incident Response & Alerting (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, AWS SNS)

✅ Performance Optimization

  • Load Testing & Benchmarking (JMeter, K6, Locust)

  • Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

📌 Mini Projects:

  • Set Up a Centralized Logging System Using ELK Stack

  • Monitor a Kubernetes Cluster with Prometheus & Grafana

Phase 6: Advanced CI/CD & Enterprise-Grade DevSecOps

✅ Microservices & CI/CD

  • Managing Microservices Deployment (Kubernetes, Helm)

  • Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd)

✅ GitOps & Advanced Deployment Strategies

  • ArgoCD & Flux for GitOps-Based Deployments

  • Feature Flags & Canary Deployments (LaunchDarkly, Split.io)

✅ Cloud-Native CI/CD & Serverless Pipelines

  • AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, Google Cloud Build

  • Serverless CI/CD Workflows (GitHub Actions + AWS Lambda)

📌 Final Projects:

  • Implement GitOps with ArgoCD for Kubernetes Deployment

  • Deploy a Multi-Cloud Application Using Terraform & CI/CD

Final Step: Real-World Practice & Skill Testing

🔥 Platforms to Test & Improve Skills:

🚀 By mastering this roadmap, you’ll be able to: ✅ Implement Secure, Scalable CI/CD Pipelines ✅ Automate & Optimize Cloud Deployments with DevOps ✅ Integrate Security at Every Step of the Development Lifecycle ✅ Deploy Applications Using GitOps, Kubernetes & Infrastructure as Code

🔥 Start automating with CI/CD & DevSecOps today!

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